krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (07/13/90)
You could conceivably being running out of TCP/IP resources on the node. Check the ptys in /dev and see if they are all in use (llkob will tell you this). The other possibility is that the NCS global location broker database is getting whacked. If there is more than one copy of /etc/ncs/glbd running in your network, then the time and date on each machine running glbd *must* be kept within 5 minutes of each other. You can try using /etc/ncs/drm_admin to forceably merge multiple glb databases if they are out of whack. If the prf command on the node you are printing from can not get an NCS connection to the node running the print manager, then the files will be queued as SR9.7 queue entries, which are ignored by the print manager. The /sys/hardcopy/pre10q program is *supposed* to periodically look for SR9.7 queue files and requeue them as SR10 entries, but sometimes it seems as if the program only does this when it starts up. If the pre10q program can't get an NCS connection to the print manager, then of course the files won't get requeued. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)
agq@itd0.dsto.oz (Ashley Quick) (07/14/90)
Yet another re-post due to a silly VAX/VMS news system not posting out...
PRF problems
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I have a DN4500 running Domain/Os Sr10.1. I want to have three (3)
print servers running. (Two of these are my own servers - not Apollo
supplied). When I have two servers running, there are no problems.
Sometimes, when the third server is running I cannot:
- use prf -lisr_pr
(Error message is displayed for each prmgr site, something
to the effect of the system being unable to bind a socket, from
RPC/Network Computing)
- queue print jobs from that node (They all just sit in some
kind of limbo). Print jobs queued on other nodes work fine.
Killing any of the three print servers (leaving two) fixes things.
Anybody have any helpful hints / suggestions ?
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