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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lpr
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611013337.5035a-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960609154419.29458F-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>

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On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:

> Point is, how should I have informed my machine that used a remote 
> printer that the network was back?  Without waiting until a timeout, that 
> is. 

Not knowing much about how lpd behaves itself when a printer goes down,
I'd go check the status of that printer in lpc first with 'status
printer', and if it was disabled, re-enable it with 'enable printer' (or 
other corrective action).  then maybe a 'restart printer' for good measure. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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