From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 12:48:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA13351 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:48:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA13338 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.204]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15513 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02230; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:48:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: lpr Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a postscript laser connected to one of my two machines, and the other machine pints to it in it's printcap file. Recently, I have been doing a lot of hardware rearangement, and when I wanted to do a print from the machine without a local printer, I got an error message about the link to the other machine being down. Sure enough, I checked, and the ethernet plug was out. I plugged it back in, checked it out via ping and ftp, all was fine, but I couldn't figure out how to tell lpd that the connection was back. I didn't want to wait for the timeout to get the print, so I lprm'ed it, and ftp'ed the print files to the machine that had the printer, and printed them. 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. Thanks. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------