After raising the discussion about interaction of Sun's lpq and LPRng's lpd yesterday, I just realized that the same problem exists when going in the opposite direction. When using LPRng's lpq to query a Sun based print server, the meaning of short and long status display is reversed. We have a site with some Linux PCs that run RedHat Linux where LPRng is the standard printing system while the print server is a Solaris machine running Sun's print spooler.
Is there a way to make lpq reverse the meaning of short and long status output without doing drastic things like modifying lpq or replacing the print server with LPRng? One possible solution is probably to run lpd on very linux client, though, I was trying to avoid that because I prefer to run lpd only on the print servers (and LPRng's lpq/lpr allow that, so ..) After noticing these problems, I am convinced that sites with mixed operating systems should standardized on a single printing system software and LPRng should be a good candidate for doing that. -akop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
