haral@unisol.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas) (07/31/87)
In article <437@cieunix.rpi.edu> curt@cieunix.rpi.edu (Curt Signorino) writes: >We're running 4.3 BSD and have a decwriter and an Imagen laser >printer hooked up. When you print something to one of them and >do an lpq on each, it appears as if the job is in both queues, >even though it only prints out on the originally specified device. >Also, if a job is interrupted, it continues printing out on the >other device. Even though you did not post your /etc/printcap entries, it sounds as if you have both printer queues spool their entries into the same spool directory. It first prints on the originally specified device because the correct filter (to the correct output device ) was invoked, however if you stop printing, the first entry in /etc/printcap will be assumed the default when restarted (unless you restart the correct printer daemon from lpc). Your problems may be fixed if you create a separate directory for each printer (i.e. /usr/spool/lpd/lp1 and /usr/spool/lpd/lp2) so a separate lock and status file will be created for each printer... --Haral Tsitsivas UniSolutions Associates ...!scgvaxd!ashtate!unisol!haral