On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Dave Lovelace wrote:
> Tomas Pluskal wrote, in part: > > > > I tried running lpd -D10, and saw some messages like "can't fork", but I > > don't know if this is related to the problem. > > > > Then I found out, that when I run LPD as root (normally it runs as "lp" > > user), it works OK ! > > > > Does anybody have any idea what this means ? > > > > > Well, *this* part of it means that there's some kind of limit on how many > processes lp can run simultaneously - that limit not applying to root. > The fork is the system call to create a sub-process. > This looks quite real, I'll do some research this way. But still it means there are 2 problems: 1) why lprng says the job was succesfully sent ? 2) why is RedHat set (in default installation) to such limit ? (I know it's a question for RH developpers) bye Tomas Pluskal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
