Many thanks to:
Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
John Justin Hough <john@oncology.uthscsa.edu>
Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
My original query was:
>We're running CAP60 (patch level 143) under Solaris 2.3 and there's a
>strange problem. One printer of the ~10 using CAP has stopped
>printing. Jobs sent via a Mac to that printer are fine. Jobs sent via
>Unix (from any machine on the network or from the CAP server) make it
>to the queue, and are reported as "ready and printing," but never
>appear.
>
>I can print from Unix with the CAP
> lwpr -p "Laser 10@NYU PHRI"
>command, but not via "lpr -Plaser10".
>
>I think this was caused by lprm'ing the current job from the queue, but
>the queue is empty, and I can't find any temporary files related to the
>removed job.
>
>I've stopped and restarted CAP60 and lp services on the server and
>client, with no change. The CAP and printer configs. haven't been
>changed in over a year.
>
>I've tried making CAP with the latest patches, but I'm getting
>complaints that two include files can't be found:
>
> /usr/include/netdb.h:66: sys/bitypes.h: No such file or directory
> /usr/include/netdb.h:68: sys/cdefs.h: No such file or directory
>
>
>Finally, we've had a persistent problem where all our printers will
>one-by-one start reporting "exec exit failure" and stop printing.
>Stopping and re-starting both lp services and CAP cures this fault.
>I'm hoping that the later patches to CAP will fix this.
Casper got the compilation problem solved on the first try:
=> From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
=>
=> You've installed bind 4.9.3 and have been foolish enough to do
=> "make install". SHame on you.
=>
=> Bind's make install destroys /usr/include/netdb.h (it replaces it with
=> its own, not Solaris compatible version).
=>
=> Just get the Solaris 2.x version from another machine and next time watch
=> before you do "make install"
The other suggestions were to build the newest version of
CAP and to check the /etc/cap.printers file for changes or
typos, and to check the spool directory permissions.
I've built and installed the new version of cap, and it
seems to work fine. I couldn't find anything wrong with
the cap configuration. I was able to define a new printer,
directed to the same Appletalk device that the Unix printer
"laser10" was unable to print to. The new printer worked
fine.
I finally rebooted the server, and the original "laser10"
destination is working. I suspect some kind of lock got left
behind when I lprm'ed the "active and printing" file from a
client machine.
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Mark Bergman bergman@phri.nyu.edu
System and Network Administrator 212-578-0822
Public Health Research Institute Rm. 1074, 455 1st Ave, NY NY, 10016
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