From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 20: 0:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040DE37B409 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5G303p92362; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:00:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3B207665.798C2CD3@cs.ucsd.edu> References: <3B17BA5D.953634EA@cs.ucsd.edu> <3B207665.798C2CD3@cs.ucsd.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:00:01 -0400 To: Marvin McNett From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: lpd problem Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:53 PM -0700 6/7/01, Marvin McNett wrote: >Garance, > >Thanks for the reply. I'm still having this strange problem. >I've noticed that I need to restart lpd every time I log in >(not just a boot time as I originally stated). This makes no >sense to me. Well, I was hoping someone else would answer, because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either... :-) You mention that you have to restart lpd every time you log in. I assume that means the lpd process is still running fine (and has to be stopped), it's just that the stupid queue for the Lexmark isn't working. About the only thing I can guess is something in your environment space. Change the print-filter that lexmark provided so it will log the current environment somewhere when the filter starts up (if it's a binary program, then wrap the program with a script). Just a simple 'date >> /tmp/stupidQ; set >> /tmp/stupidQ;' should do the trick. Then try various experiments to see what is different between the times when the queue works, and when it doesn't. Sorry I can't be more help. While I do a lot with printing, it's almost all experience with network-printers. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message