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ln03 'crl' server is losing jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 14 10:21:11 1990
From: smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: crlstaff@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 90 10:20:18 EDT
The server to the printer 'crl' has been exhibiting the following problem:
when one job is already in the queue, new jobs are truncated to zero
length.
For example,
M9-551-3.MIT.EDU... unable to get hostname for local machine m9-551-3
crl is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active phils 15 root1.ps 1797867 bytes
1st smyser 0 /tmp/ES000858 0 bytes
olmsted%
and also,
M9-551-3.MIT.EDU... unable to get hostname for local machine m9-551-3
crl is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active phils 15 root1.ps 1797867 bytes
1st smyser 0 /tmp/ES000858 0 bytes
2nd smyser 1 /tmp/ES000861 0 bytes
3rd smyser 2 /tmp/ES000863 0 bytes
olmsted%
Because it only happens when someone else is already printing, I don't
hear about the problem very often because most people write it off to randomness.
I don't have the slightest idea what to do about this, so I invoke the
printer gods on mount e40. O Great and Powerful BrianMelans, hear my prayers...
Thanks!
ROb
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To: smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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Subject: printer acting up
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It seems impossible to put more than one job on the queue without
subsequent jobs being
truncated to zero length. It also seems to print jobs rather
randomly, or I maybe imagining
things. This is a pain.
Philip
