[ale] LPRng

[James Kinney]

I've recieved that same hang as well. Mine tracked down to be faulty
postscript from netscape.

If gv can't open it, it won't print. Also, make sure you're runing
ghostscript >= 5.5.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

>
> ...stands for Line PRinter-daemon No Good?
>
> That's the opinion I am getting at this point.  I have spent the last hour
> or so beating on it and screaming at the top of my lungs at it.  No doubt
> my neighbours think I am nuts.
>
> My network is trusted, I therefore requrie none of the authentication CRAP
> affiliated with this piece of junk.
>
> lpd.perms reads:
>
> DEFAULT ACCEPT
> ACCEPT
>
> ...this seems the simplest POSSIBLE configuration.  Allow by default, then
> allow everything, right?
>
> Local printing fine.  Remote?  Forget it!
>
> The one and only printer on this box (hermes) is lp0; it is a Canon
> BJC4200.  It works fine from hermes.
>
> On lolly, there is a printer defined as 'colour' which points to host
> hermes, queue lp0.
>
> On lolly, I do:
>
> lpr -Pcolour netscape.ps
>
> On hermes, I do:
>
> lpq
>
> I see:
>
> Printer: lp at hermes
>  Queue: 1 printable job
>  Server: pid 4794 active
>  Unspooler: pid 4807 active
>  Status: removing job 'cfA012lolly' - JREMOVE at 20:24:21.996
>  Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size
> Time
> active mariah at lolly+13              A    13 netscape.ps         373256
> 20:31:45
>
> WHY?!?
>
> WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY?!?
>
> The LPRng web page has given me zero.
>
> A search of Red Hat's site has given me zero.
>
> I've f^<<|n9 had it.
>
>
>

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