[17940] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jun 27 23:38:42 2000
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:38:36 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200006280338.XAA18666@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu, tb@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17587] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
Thomas tells me he believe this was fixed. I'm going to close the bug
report. If you're still having the problem, I'd appreciate it if you
would reply, and I can re-open the report.
Jonathon
> OS: Redhat-Athena; installed Athena RPMS (8.3.27) on top of
> standard 6.1 release
>
> Something weird seems to be going on when I print files...
>
> ---
>
> (6:45 ~) beland@Press-Your-Luck: /usr/athena/bin/enscript -h -2Gr sendmail.cw
> [ 1 page * 1 copy ]
>
> ---
>
> normally produces:
>
> ---
>
> [ 1 page * 1 copy ] spooled to housebook2
>
> ---
>
>
> My zephyr notification no longer works, either with
> /usr/athena/bin/enscript or /usr/athena/bin/lpr, whether or not I use
> the -z flag, and despite having the proper environment variables set:
>
> LPROPT=-h -z
> PRINTER=housebook2
>
> Two other probably unrelated things I noticed:
>
> 1.)
>
> As I was lpq-ing the printer, it once reported (a few seconds after it
> had finished printing, but after it was showing the document as off
> the queue):
>
> Printer 'housebook2@MULCH.MIT.EDU' - cannot open connection - Cannot
> assign requ
> ested address
> Make sure LPD server is running on the server
>
> I /usr/athena/bin/lpq'd a few seconds later, and it was back to
> normal, reporting no jobs on the queue.
>
> 2.)
>
> There seems to be a (Y2K?) glitch on the enscript -2Gr printouts.
> This file:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beland root 59 Feb 28 05:17 sendmail.cw
>
> Was dated:
>
> 100/02/28
> 05:17:08
>
> in the upper-left-hand corner of the printout.
