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Date:      Sat, 7 Jan 1995 16:11:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com>
Subject:   printing probs (again!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950107160116.8324A-100000@state.eng.umd.edu>

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Well, at least this'll be different than the usual run of printing 
problems.  I'm trying to get printing working from the andrew auis-6.3.  
When I get that working, I will decide that's far enough, and turn what 
I've got into a port, but there's a few strange sticking points I'm 
hitting, that may or may not even be related to auis.

The one I'm going to ask you guys is this:  I'm hosting the auis stuff on 
journey2, my 2.0 machine, and the printer on n3lxx, my 1.1.5.1 machine.  
I have got the printcap on journey2 sending requests to n3lxx, where they 
seem to be printing fine, but when a request comes from auis, to the 
journey2 daemon, then to n3lxx to be printed, it causes the lpd daemon on 
n3lxx to dump core.  I noticed that all requests from journey2 to print 
get to n3lxx /usr/spool/lpd spooling directory as df* files owned by 
root, but the files that I lpr locally on n3lxx to the n3lxx printer are 
owned by the user making the request (that's my non-root name, chuckr).
Other than that, I can't see anything weird, bcause I can take the file 
that causes the printer to choke and copy it to /tmp, then if chuckr 
prints them locally on n3lxx, they print fine (nothing in the file is 
strange).

I should add, my printer is postscript.  Anyone got any thoughts on why
root should own all print requests from journey2 to n3lxx?  Or why else
a print request might cause lpd to dump core?

Thanks, guys.

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Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
chuckr@eng.umd.edu          | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
7608 Topton St.             |
New Carrollton, MD 20784    | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx
(301) 459-2316              | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy!
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