jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) (10/05/85)
First of all, thanks for all the responses to the questions I've been posting recently... they have been very useful, and have really helped a lot. Now for another one. I have a printer that plots too. I set up a print spool directory and a plot spool directory, and created a printer filter and a plot filter. According to a suggestion I saw on the net recently, I specified the plot daemon's lock file in /etc/printcap as "../print/lock" so they wouldn't clash. The problem is that the plot daemon wakes up, sees the lock file due to some print job, and dies. After the print job is finished and the lock file is gone, the plot job is still queued up. It takes an additional plot job to fire up the plot daemon and get the plot queue serviced. What piece am I missing here? Can I fix things so that queues get serviced without having to tell casual users about restarting daemons and such? I thought of something like having the second daemon sleep instead of dying, but then I think I run into problems with several daemons sleeping on the same queue. I am using the 2.9BSD lpr software. -- Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp