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Re: ceres/bias switching to CUPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Oct 14 18:41:24 2009
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
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Sorry to argue the color of the bikeshed, but why those two printers in
particular? I looked at ceres yesterday and it was in pretty horrible
physical shape such that I was unable to clear the jam (and there's a huge
crack across the upper left of it); I guess lpq -v indicates that bmartell
successfully printed to it this afternoon, but chpcheck indicates that
it's jammed again. I don't know as well what the status of bias is, but it
... appears to be off or at least offline today? As of about three weeks
ago it was displaying some interesting error message on the panel, and a
friend in 12-182 on gchat reports, "it's been down for a while". From
standpoints of getting good testing and figuring out what "it doesn't
work" might mean, it may be worth picking other printers.
Also, I hope cview printers and something vaguely resembling lpc will
continue to work?
Other than those two things, woohoo!.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As part of Operation Install Something Other Than LPRng, I'll be switching
> the two cluster printers ceres and bias to one of the new CUPS servers next
> Monday. Please speak now if you object to this plan.
>
> The transition should be relatively painless since there are other printers
> available should something go explody. I'm not saying which CUPS server will
> be handling it because the F5 environment sitting in front of the server
> should make the backend less visible behind the printers.mit.edu front end.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> -MM
>
