From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 12:22:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02077 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02071 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA03780; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:22:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Karsten Fleischer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I have a problem with the lpd - deamon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA02072 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Karsten Fleischer wrote: > > Use separate queues for the different printer types. When one is > > printing, the others will get `device busy' and just wait for the device > > to become available. > Good idea, but there occurs the 2. problem the printer is not > connected to a device it is a networked printer. the inputfilter > sends the data via telnet directly to the printer, which has so much > memory, that he accept print-job at once. Our main problem isnīt that the > printer do not print it works the problem is our way to count the pages. > This is don with the same script and so tit is required that only one > printerqueue send data. OK, this is accounting related :-) I don't really have any solutions for you then. Page counting is really difficult to do accurately. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major