1.1.1 Printing Problem

[Greg Morrison]

We're still running Aux 1.1.1 on a Mac II cx, and are having problems
when printing to an attached Epson-compatable Bull printer.  The first
page and a half or so of the printout appears, and then the printer
stops.  It seems that an 'lp' request causes an extra lpsched daemon
to start, which in turn cause a lockfile to be created.  I've followed
the instructions in the manual about how to clear up this situation,
but it happens again with the first lp command.  Rebooting doesn't
help.

This behavior began after I submitted a dozen or so lp commands via a
script on a remote system which issues rsh commands for the Mac in
question.  The effect would have been for these (largish) print jobs
to arrive in very rapid sequence. But, who knows if this was a factor.
Prior to this development, we'd been printing for months with no
problems. 

Any ideas?  I suppose I could reinstall the operating system, but
would prefer not to.


Greg Morrison                           |  morrison at ccs.carleton.ca
Computing and Communications Services   |  phone: (613) 788-2507
Carleton University                     |  fax:   (613) 788-4448
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