[Cialug] RH printing

[Barry Von Ahsen]

RH6 from about 10 years ago, or RHEL6 from this year?

if they un-bit bucket STDERR does it show anything?

-barry


On 9/21/2011 2:45 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> A friend of mine has a problem with printing under RH 6.0, .. has anyone
> run across this sort of problem - a zero length file in the lp queue?
>
> 	TIA,
>
> 	Lee
>
> ===========================================
>
> The application programs for reports start with prompts to select which
> items to print and the last prompt is for the printer which is opened as
> soon as the printer is selected. If no items meet the selection, the
> program ends and the printer is closed, nothing sent to the spooler.  The
> printer command is :
>
>> lpr -PLP -#$COPIES -l 2>/dev/null.
>
> Run on an IBM computer.  Printers are net worked and the computer
> also serves as a printer server for pcs in the office ... using Samba.
>
>   Under Red Hat 6.xxx a spool file is opened.  lpstat -t will show a file
> with zero characters.  It will sit in the spooler for about 5 min.
> Nothing else can get by this zero file and the print jobs just stack up
> for that printer.  After about 5 min the  file is removed by the operating
> system and the other files are printed until another zero file is
> encountered. Since the same programs ran on other operating systems
> without this problem, I suspect it is something changed with Red Hat 6.xxx
> settings?
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