[2155] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: LPD rejecting jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Mon Jan 7 14:35:48 2002
Message-Id: <200201071935.OAA22645@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
cc: ops@MIT.EDU, IPM-SYS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU, printdel@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:39:44 EST."
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:35:22 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> Pillage is running AIX as an operating system, so zephyr is not installed.
So the fact that it's trying to call out to /usr/athena/bin/zwrite is
a configuration problem, but not one that's relevant right now.
> I have called Rick and asked him to submit a small test file via klpr from
> his desktop.
>
> He called back to confirm. Yes it is now working again.
>
> Do you know what happened?
Beats me. If it happens again, look for the job in the lpq -L output,
and provide the relevant logs, both from the spool directory and from
the syslog file in the printer directory. You should also ask exactly
when the job failed, and whether it's reproduceable.
It's plausible that he just tried to print during a network glitch,
and the connection got dropped.
I don't know what the "remote lpd daemon rejected job" means; it might
mean nothing more than the connection getting dropped, since the usual
job rejection happens silently, as far as the lpr client is concerned
(the Athena print servers inform the user of it with a zephyrgram).
The next step would be to look at the client code and figure out what
it really means.
-Camilla
