I was having a problem with a user printing using lp. When she used lpr,
she was able to print fine. It turned out that the entry in the NIS+ cred
table was incorrect.
My original message:
>
> We have one user who can print with lpr but not lp. No other users have
> complained of this problem, and I can't reproduce it in any other account.
>
> Following are some details that the other administrator (my boss) gave
> me.
>
> (rex is the server that handles print requests. pegasus is the compute
> server. If the print job is given on rex, it goes through without a
> hitch on both lp and lpr. Any other system, and it flakes out)
>
> > The print job is accepted. If it is submitted on pegasus, it should be
> > routed through rex, but the following appears in the lpNet log on
> > pegasus
> >
> > 08/07 13:49:34 c 19100 rex can't open spool file:
> > /var/spool/lp/tmp/.net/tmp/pegasus/200-1
> >
> > She also gets mail from lp saying that this has been an error, without
> > going into specifics.
>
The responses:
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 01:57:13 +0200
From: kpischke@cadence.com (Karlheinz Pischke)
Hi,
what about the file / directory permissions ?
Here is the excerpt of my machine ...
mkh.kpischke.283% ls -ld /var/spool/ld
total 1
drwxrwxr-x 7 lp lp 512 Aug 7 01:36 lp/
mkh.kpischke.284% ls -l /var/spool/lp
total 1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lp lp 0 Aug 7 01:36 SCHEDLOCK
drwxrwxr-x 2 lp lp 512 Jun 9 18:52 admins/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 23 Jun 9 18:52 bin -> ../../../
usr/lib/lp/bin/
drwxrwxr-x 4 lp lp 512 Aug 7 01:36 fifos/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 13 Jun 9 18:52 logs -> ../../lp
/logs/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 25 Jun 9 18:52 model -> ../../.
./usr/lib/lp/model/
drwxrwxr-x 6 lp lp 512 Jul 31 01:06 requests/
drwxrwxr-x 2 lp lp 512 Jun 10 07:10 system/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 21 Jun 9 19:05 temp -> /var/spo
ol/lp/tmp/mkh/
drwx--x--x 7 lp lp 512 Jul 31 01:06 tmp/
Gruss
Karlheinz
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From: "Trevor Paquette" <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 06:58:13 -0600
Check the disk space on pegasus in the directory. Make sure you are not filling
up the disk. Check the inode space as well. Next look at permissions in that
directory. Does that file already exist? Some things to start with.
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:19:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: fpardo@mail.tisny.com (Frank Pardo)
Have a look at Chapter 25, "Printing and Imaging", in this book:
Unix System Administration Handbook (2nd edition)
Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-151051-7
It explains all about BSD-ish ("lpr") versus ATT-ish ("lp") printing
systems, and how some of them masquerade as others.
By the way, this book is worth its weight in gold. Everybody on earth
should own at least one copy of it.
good luck
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so that we can weep with others.
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