[71937] in Hotline Meeting
Case 494133: w20-575-47's default printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Mon Feb 2 16:41:22 2004
Message-Id: <200402022137.i12LbOLK005887@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, jmorzins@MIT.EDU
cc: hesreq@MIT.EDU
Reply-to: hesreq@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:37:24 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> I just helped a confused user, who could not find where their printouts
> were going. Despite the fact that they were sitting 10 feet away from
> the printer "ajax", the computer was sending their paper to another
> room, to the printer "pulp".
>
> Could you review the cluster information for w20-575-47 and its
> neighboring machines? Printing to ajax would make much more sense than
> printing to pulp.
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
> MIT SIPB
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and my apologies for taking
so long to get back to you.
I recall last time I went around and adjusted all the hesiod in w20,
one of my aims was to move load towards the printers in the back of
the cluster, since ajax has persistently gotten the most load of any
campus printer.
Looking at the map, I'm guessing that this is an intentional decision,
rather than an oversight, but next time I'm there in person, I'll try
to make sure to review the map and make sure that it matches reality.
Camilla Fox
Athena Server Operations
