Printer queue problem
Seow-Hiong Goh
shgoh at marvax.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Nov 7 04:46:42 AEST 1989
I am having problems setting up a print queue from my SparcStation to a
laser printer connected to a VaxStation GPX/II. I have set up the
necessary entries in /etc/printcap:
lp|ps|postscript|PostScript:\
:lp=:rm=marvax:rp=lp:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lp:
and also set up the /etc/hosts.equiv file.
The problem is that I can successfully print from the SparcStation the
first time, but immediately after that, on an lpq, I get this:
% lpq
no entries
watt: Warning: lp is down: sending to marvax
watt: Warning: lp queue is turned off
This is problem is removed only if I went into the spool directory, and
removed the 'lock' file manually. After that, the queue becomes normal
again:
% lpq
no entries
Does anyone have any idea why the SparcStation is doing this? I have
another Dec3100 connected on the ethernet, and i made the same changes to
the Dec3100, and the print queue on that side appears to work fine.
I deeply appreciate any help that anyone can offer.
Seow-Hiong Goh
System Manager
Mechanical Engineering Dept
UC Berkeley
(shgoh at marvax.Berkeley.EDU)
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