Summary: lpd sends mail but prints

From: C.Eagle@massey.ac.nz
Date: Tue Jul 16 1991 - 21:00:13 CDT


The problem:
lpd sent mail for every job that was sent to a laserprinter, which said that
the job could not be printed. The job was printed.

The solution:
Hack the filter code to force a 0 exit status.

Thanks to those who replied:
simon@Aus.Sun.COM (Simon Woodhead - Technical Consultant)
sgp@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Steven G. Parker)
earl@division.cs.columbia.edu (Earl Smith)
dit <@aberdeen.ac.uk:dit@galois>
B.C.Hamshere@newcastle.ac.uk
macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)
Mark Plumbley <mdp@engineering.cambridge.ac.uk>
George Ross <gdmr@lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Mike Raffety <miker%oconnor@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
P.S.Jones@durham.ac.uk
bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)



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