ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) (01/30/91)
Hi netters, I was wondering if anyone had come across the following. I am trying to get printtool to work on my 3/50. Whenever I run it, it hangs in a non-killable mode. I am able to print etc fine from the machine, it is only printtool that dies. I have done a trace of the run, the end of which follows ; getpid () = 277 open ("/etc/printcap", 0, 0666) = 4 ioctl (4, 0x40125401, 0xdfff94c) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) fstat (4, 0xdfff980) = 0 brk (0x36334) = 0 read (4, "lp|local line printer on UQVAX:\".., 8192) = 1303 This is where it hangs, on the first line of /etc/printcap (I have removed all comments from the file. I have also noticed that things have gotten a lot slower. I imagine the 3 zombie processes I now have running are going beserk. Any help appreciated. If no-one has encountered this before, I will report it to sun and see if they have a fix. ant
chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (01/31/91)
In article <1991Jan30.101618.19319@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>, ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes: > I was wondering if anyone had come across the following. I am trying to get > printtool to work on my 3/50. Whenever I run it, it hangs in a non-killable > mode. I am able to print etc fine from the machine, it is only printtool that > dies. Make sure you comment out any nonexistent printers in your printcap. Printtool is really annoyed by printers which are defined in printcap but don't exist. Since just about every site has some archetypal Berkeley printer defined, printtool has a heart attack. We cfixed up our printcap and printtool was happy. -- Chuck Musciano ARPA : chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corporation Usenet: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!chuck PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 AT&T : (407) 727-6131 Melbourne, FL 32902 FAX : (407) 729-3363 A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. -- Garrison Keillor