SUMMARY : lpd sending mails

From: Eckhard Rueggeberg (erueg@cfgauss.uni-math.gwdg.de)
Date: Mon Nov 18 1991 - 08:13:37 CST


Original question :

> Last week, I asked the Netland a question for which I got only
> 3 answers, and none of them helpful (thanks anyways), so I dare
> to ask you all again, adding a bit more information I recently
> found out. Perhaps someone has another idea.
>
> I have a puzzling problem with the spooling system. I have a
> print(file,compute,NIS)server 4/470, 3 diskless and 2 dataless
> clients, all running 4.1.1, and sometimes a user gets a mail
> from the server printer daemon saying :
> Your printer job (test.dvi) could not be printed
> The problem occurs ONLY for one printer, and ONLY when printing
> from remote.
>
> So my questions are : Why does the spooler send the mails, and how
> could I force this feature for sending mails when there REALLY is
> a problem I would like the users to know ?

Sorry, I had completely forgotten to mention that I installed an lpd
related patch, i.e. 100305-0x. I don't remember the version, I installed
at least three different versions because the first two were as buggy as
the original lpd. Claus told me -03 creates this problem, Ian said -04
and -05 are buggy, and Per recommended to install -06, which I did, and
everything is fine since then.

Nobody could tell me how to use the mailing feature :-(

Thanks a lot to

Claus Assmann <ca@idefix.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
Angela Thomas Hoynowski <angela@everest.tandem.com>
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Tactical Engineering)
Hans van Staveren <sater@cs.vu.nl>
macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)
Steve Bellenot <bellenot@math.fsu.edu>
per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)

Eckhard R"uggeberg
erueg@cfgauss.uni-math.gwdg.de



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