Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:42:24 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> To: eivind@dimaga.com (Eivind Eklund) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange lpr or lpd bug Message-ID: <199703051142.NAA11466@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970305120112.00b117e0@dimaga.com> from Eivind Eklund at "Mar 5, 97 12:01:14 pm"
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> > Problem: lp2 sometimes start to steal all the print jobs of lp. When this > has started, all jobs that should have gone to lp goes to lp2 instead (and > these are named jobs of the first form - and they are named correctly; I > syslog the name). This kind of theft has happened twice since I installed > the extra printer about 1.5 months ago. It has happened with both lpd from > 2.1.0 and lpd from -stable as of Feb 18. > > I seem to remember that killing lpd solved the problem last time; this > time, I had to remove the offending printer from printcap. > > My printcap: > # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 > > lp|HP LaserJet 5MP Network:\ > :rm=karianne.dimaga.com:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > lp2|local line printer:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > Try different spool directories in the sd field. I'm using it here with different directories and have no problems. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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