This is kind of a weird one.
We're seeing, rarely & intermittently, jobs which are queued up to one
printer but go not only to that printer but to other printers as well.
I can't see any reason whatever for this to happen. The one common
thread seems to be that these are all large jobs, in excess of 1 MB,
but it's possible that it's happened with smaller ones & they haven't
been reported. This is on a RedHat 7.0 system, running LPRng-3.6.24
(but not ifhp). I've established pretty definitely that one single
lpr command was issued, to one single printer (but in the two different
cases I've looked into, the affected printers were not the same ones).
The command in the case I've been looking at today was:
/usr/bin/lpr -h -l -#1 -P laser
with the input coming as a stream to stdin, not from a disk file.
The job printed on the printer "laser", but also on at least one other
printer (in a totally different department, but on the same network),
tre_hp8100. (I have some indications that it also printed on tre_ps,
but haven't been able to verify that as yet.)
The printcap in use on this site is appended after my signature. (Despite
the comments, it is maintained by directly editing the file.)
If anyone can shed any light, I'd really appreciate it.
--
- Dave Lovelace
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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# /etc/printcap
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=asr_hp8000_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
laser:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=asr_hp8000_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
laser-land66:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser-land66:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=asr_hp8000_ps%9100:\
:lpd_bounce:\
:stty=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/laser-land66/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL TEXT NAxNA letter {} TextPrinter Default {}
parallel:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/parallel:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/parallel/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
asr_deskjet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=asr_hp870_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
asr_hp4:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=asr_hp4_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
ub_4si:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=ub_4si_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
tre_ps:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:fq:\
:sh:\
:lp=tre_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
wat_iiisi:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/wat_iiisi:\
:mx#0:\
:fq:\
:sh:\
:lp=wat_iiisi_ps%9102:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/wat_iiisi/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
fin_5si:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=fin_5si_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
tre_hp8100:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=tre_hp8100_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
fin_3si:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:fq:\
:sh:\
:lp=fin_3si_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL TEXT NAxNA letter {} TextPrinter Default {}
fin_line:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fin_line:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=:\
:rm=CITY_HALL:\
:rp=.FIN_LINE.FINANCIAL.CITY_HALL:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fin_line/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
mis_hp3_ps:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/mis_hp3_ps:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=mis_hp3_ps%9100:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/mis_hp3_ps/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 600x600 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
tre_bill_reprt|bill_reprint:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/tre_bill_reprt/:\
:fq:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=tre_ps%9101:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/tre_bill_reprt//filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
wat_hp8150:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=:\
:rm=CITY_HALL:\
:rp=.WAT_HP8150.FINANCIAL.CITY_HALL:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:mc=0:
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