[comp.archives] [hp] Re: Canceling remote print jobs

gaute@stud.cs.uit.no (Gaute Nessan) (05/16/91)

Archive-name: fixes/hpux-fixes/hpux-rlpdaemon/1991-05-15
Archive: hpserv1.cs.uit.no:HP/rlpdaemon.Z [128.39.70.50]
Original-posting-by: gaute@stud.cs.uit.no (Gaute Nessan)
Original-subject: Re: Canceling remote print jobs
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <1991May14.192739.546@sunee.waterloo.edu> gordon@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Gordon R. Strachan) writes:
>...  The user on the sun then attempts to
>cancel the print job.  If he types lprm -Pprinter, nothing happens.  If he
>types lprm -Pprinter userid or lprm -Pprinter jobID then the following error
>is retured
>
>Maxwell: cfA034bbcr: Permission denied
>
>...
>
>Anybody seen this one before?  Got any idea how to fix it?

The problem is that the rlpdaemon uses gethostbyaddr() to get the hostname
of the peer host. gethostbyaddr returns a domain qualified name (aaa.bbb.edu).
That name is different from the hostname in the spooling queue, and you get
the error message "Permission denied".  I have a patched version available
by anonymous ftp to hpserv1.cs.uit.no (HP/rlpdaemon.Z).

>Thanks
>Gordon

Gaute
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found hpux-rlpdaemon ok
hpserv1.cs.uit.no:HP/rlpdaemon.Z