[18009] in Hotline Meeting
printer hosage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Sep 7 18:20:29 1993
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: carla@Athena.MIT.EDU, wchuang@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 18:20:08 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU>
User rgul has sent 17M files to all the printers in W20, thereby
preventing other users from printing. What is proper procedure
in such a case?
Here are the queues:
% lpq -Pajax
PAPER-PUSHER.MIT.EDU... ajax is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active rgul 10 (standard input) 17090235 bytes
1st kkyang 4 /mit/snlocker/SNlist93 1358 bytes
2nd pscha 31 (standard input) 9887 bytes
3rd pscha 32 (standard input) 9887 bytes
4th jyueh 0 ... 1531 bytes
% lpq -Pceres
TREE-KILLER.MIT.EDU... ceres is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active rgul 7 (standard input) 17379900 bytes
% lpq -Ppython
ARBOR-EATER.MIT.EDU... python is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active rgul 9 (standard input) 17090235 bytes
% lpq -Ppulp
PAPER-PUSHER.MIT.EDU... pulp is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active rgul 8 (standard input) 17379900 bytes
% lpq -Pfiber
TREE-KILLER.MIT.EDU... Warning: fiber is down: Awaiting Service
Warning: fiber queue is turned off
no entries in fiber
