dbraun@i50s7.ira.uka.de (Dieter Braun) (01/24/91)
I've problems with the Interleaf printing on our SUN's. After booting the print server, I first have to kill the /usr/lib/lpd and restart it by hand. only then the interleaf installed printers are working. On the other hand they queue in the interleaf printer queues and don't reach the transcript queues. Printing to the transcript printers works right. We are using SunOS 4.1. Who has any ideas about it. What is the difference between starting lpd in rc and starting as root by hand? Is there any know lpd bug? Are there any problems with other printing software?
stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) (01/26/91)
dbraun@i50s7.ira.uka.de (Dieter Braun) writes: > After booting the print server, I first have to kill the /usr/lib/lpd and > restart it by hand. only then the interleaf installed printers are > working. On the other hand they queue in the interleaf printer queues and > don't reach the transcript queues. Printing to the transcript printers > works right. We are using SunOS 4.1. > > Who has any ideas about it. What is the difference between starting lpd > in rc and starting as root by hand? Is there any know lpd bug? Are there > any problems with other printing software? Check the protections on the spool directories. I think the problem you are seeing is a protection one -- daemon can't get to the files but root can. And (I think) that the lpd belongs to daemon when started with rc but root when started by hand. One problem I know about for sure is a protection one when transcript prints one file and stops. This is a problem of transcript not being able to delete the banner file. Your problem may be the same sort of thing.