[32709] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Athena printer disabled at WHOI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric F. Cunningham)
Mon Mar 25 14:38:23 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:36:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "Eric F. Cunningham" <eric@salmon.whoi.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: eric@salmon.whoi.edu
I sent this email this AM and thought I would pass along some add'l info. The
athena printer at WHOI, scallop, cannot be printed to directly from the athena
workstations at WHOI. The msg "printer queue disabled" appears when you attempt
to lpr. However, one of the students here discovered that if one telnets from
the athena workstation (or rlogins from a non-athena workstation), to
pesto.mit.edu or to alfredo.mit.edu, the usual print command (lpr) works just
fine.
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Eric Cunningham - WHOI Athena Site Administrator
Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 289-2224
fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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> From eric Mon Mar 25 09:06 EST 1996
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:06:38 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Eric F. Cunningham" <eric>
> Subject: Athena printer disabled at WHOI
> To: hotline@mit.edu
> Cc: eric
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> Hi. It appears as though we're having some printer difficulties here at WHOI.
> Below is some backround info. I'm also experiencing this. Just for the heck
of
> it, I rebooted tautog, the printer server for scallop, but that had no effect.
>
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> Eric Cunningham - WHOI Athena Site Administrator
> Computer and Information Services
> Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 289-2224
> fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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> From drstuart@MIT.EDU Sun Mar 24 15:41 EST 1996
> From: drstuart@MIT.EDU
> To: ecunningham@whoi.edu
> Cc: drstuart@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Athena printer disabled
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 15:43:42 EST
>
> Eric,
>
> I Wrote to you previously about the Athena printer, and you wrote back that
> you had tried to work out what was wrong, but didn't have any problems...
> Well, here's the deal:
> I spent all of Friday with Athena On-Line Consulting trying to see if it was
> something in MY dotfiles that would mess it up. The consensus was no... and
> then when Sheri White (on menhaden) and Liz Kujawinski (on squeteague)
> also got the same message about the printer queue being disabled, I realized
> that it was NOT just me.
> I've tried enscript and lpr but both give the same result:
>
> athena% enscript -fCourier8 -Pscallop2 3816
> [ 2 pages * 1 copy ] spooled to scallop2
> Printer queue is disabled.
>
> athena% lpr -Pscallop2 3816
> Printer queue is disabled.
>
> athena% enscript 3816
> enscript: 1 lines were wrapped because of length.
> [ 2 pages * 1 copy ] spooled to scallop
> Printer queue is disabled.
>
> athena% lpr -Pscallop 3816
> Printer queue is disabled.
>
> The above I tried just now from tautog. So I have been on all three Athena
> terminals in Clark and have been unable to print from any of them. Included
> is what "help" I got from OLC.
>
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> They said to log out and log in again choosing to ignore any customizations
> from the log-in menu (however, this is a pain if you are already logged
> in and doing many jobs). This worked on Friday from tautog, but since
> I had a ton of work on MATLAB and didn't want to log out on squeateague
> on Friday, I didn't try this on squeteague.
> I need to print my graphs from MATLAB to be able to continue with my
> thesis work. The sooner this problem can be fixed, the better.
>
> I'll be around all day Monday (and all week), if this message has not been
> clear enough. You can reach me at x3371.
> Thanks,
> Dana
>
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