Re: [9fans] lpdaemon probs (fix)

["Conor Williams" <connorwilliamsie@aol.com>]

hey Geoff
thanks for youre interest...
got it running last night - spent half the night hacking the
lpdaemon.c code (/root/sys/src/cmd/lp) and traced the problem
to the fork and exec - which didnt seem to be running - so ran
touch and that worked then watched the processes being spawned on
the server and found that lp was being spawned...
so eventually after trying differnt things traced the problem to the
namespace... what happened was the parallel port wasnt bound for
user none coming into the box...
so  a bind -a '#'L2 /dev in the /rc/bin/service/tcp515 file before the
lpdaemon line fixed it... jumping around the room last night!! This
fixed the "read error: connection lost line" aswell! So I can now print from
my diskless terminal to my server which has the printer hanging out
of its parallel port.
Q. Has no-one come across that before?
The devices file I had created was actually ok (it is quite similar to
the one I posted)
l8r
will551

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Collyer" <geoff@collyer.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] lpdaemon probs


> I think we need your /sys/lib/lp/devices file (or at least the entries
> relevant to your printers), not an approximation, to debug this.
> There should be a dozen fields in most entries; they should look
> something like this (all one line):
>
> fn          2C-501  olive.cs.bell-labs.com  tcp!fn.cs.bell-labs.com!9100
81920  post+600dpi+duplex+hp4simx  generic generic generic generic
tcppost FIFO
>
> Also, could you run this and send us the output:
>
> flag x +
> echo fs $fs fileserver $fileserver
> 9fs other
> ls -ld /lp /n/other/lp
>
>