[18648] in Athena Bugs
lpr failure for quick repeated printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jan 3 15:19:52 2001
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:19:46 -0500
Message-Id: <200101032019.PAA30534@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@mit.edu
The following output suggests a flaw in the lpr network code, although
perhaps one we don't want to fix if it only shows up when people are
abusing the printers like I just was:
equal-rites% repeat 9 lpr -h -Pnil2 f2210.ps
Status Information:
sending job 'ghudson@equal-rites+511' to nil2@MULCH.MIT.EDU
connecting to 'MULCH.MIT.EDU', attempt 1
cannot open connection to MULCH.MIT.EDU - Cannot assign requested address
Make sure LPD server is running on the server
Status Information:
sending job 'ghudson@equal-rites+520' to nil2@MULCH.MIT.EDU
connecting to 'MULCH.MIT.EDU', attempt 1
cannot open connection to MULCH.MIT.EDU - Cannot assign requested address
Make sure LPD server is running on the server
Status Information:
sending job 'ghudson@equal-rites+526' to nil2@MULCH.MIT.EDU
connecting to 'MULCH.MIT.EDU', attempt 1
cannot open connection to MULCH.MIT.EDU - Cannot assign requested address
Make sure LPD server is running on the server
equal-rites% lpq -Pnil
Printer: nil@mulch 'HP5SI E40-349Area'
Queue: 4 printable jobs
Server: pid 27200 active
Unspooler: pid 27204 active
Status: printing data file 'dfA502equal-rites.mit.edu' at 15:17:23.783
Filter_status: 70 percent done at 15:17:33.680
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
active ghudson@equal-rites+502 A 502 f2210.ps 360863 15:17:22
2 ghudson@equal-rites+505 A 505 f2210.ps 360863 15:17:26
3 ghudson@equal-rites+508 A 508 f2210.ps 360863 15:17:29
4 ghudson@equal-rites+514 A 514 f2210.ps 360863 15:17:32
