From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 01:37:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA13935 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13919 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id BAA22434 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:37:36 -0700 Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id BAA09960 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA05274; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:35:35 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: lpr In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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