Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:32:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Karsten Fleischer <fleischi@physik.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I have a problem with the lpd - deamon Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014093121.2456A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34428CC7.C50C0686@physik.tu-berlin.de>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Karsten Fleischer wrote: > I have a strange problem with the lpd-daemon. > I have a printcap with more then one entries (I´m using apsfilter). > But all of them are connected to the same printer. To prevent chaos > I have the same lock-file, but diffrent spooling-directories for them. > If there are two different jobs the whole printerqueue > is locked. I always get a message that there is no daemon present > but ps tells me that there is still one. If I kill the running > lpd and start it again the printer continues with the next job. > but if there are two jobs in different printers it hangs again after > finishing the first one. The /var/log/lpd-errs says nothing. > My question is: > > Do you have the faintest idea what is wrong? Or is it impossible to > have more then one printcap-entry connected to a single queue? Use separate queues for the different printer types. When one is printing, the others will get `device busy' and just wait for the device to become available. The lockfiles are probably running into each other and causing deadlocks. 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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