> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep  9 04:21:04 2002
> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:20:54 +0200 (METDST)
> From: Olav Kolbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [lprng] ifhp does not detect that printer is done
>
>
> Hi there
>
> Quickish question. Moving from ifhp-3.5.4 to ifhp-3.5.10 added some good
> stuff like better accounting and better support for newer printers.
> However, we also started seeing a lot of queue hangs because ifhp gets
> into a state where it never exits, even though the job for all intents and
> purposes is done. Truss'ing the ifhp-process in various instances show
> either that it's (permanently?) blocking on read(1, ..., 511) or that it's
> repeatedly getting something like :
>
> read(1, 0xFFBEF4A4, 511)                        = 73
>    @ P J L   U S T A T U S   T I M E D\r\n C O D E = 3 5 0 7 8\r\n
>    D I S P L A Y = " S T RD2 M S P A R I N G   PD0 "\r\n O N L I N
>    E = T R U E\r\n\f
>
> over and over again. (STR�MSPARING P� means POWERSAVE ON, so the printer
> has gone back into hibernation). There are various other messages being
> received from the printer in the other instances I've trussed, but they're
> all in the general "nothing going on on this printer"-category.
>
> The printer types in question are all mainly HP printers (8xxx, 4xxx etc),
> but that may or may not be because we're predominantly an hp shop. Out of
> the fifteenish thousand printouts each day, some fifty to several hundred
> experience this problem. Percentagevise not a lot, but certainly more than
> enough to possibly have to downgrade again.
>
> Any bright ideas? Heard about the problem before? Need more info?
>
>                               OK
>
>

Scream.... they have added/changed/modified
the return codes for the printer when it is done/offline!!!

I need to get a new set of codes for this printer.  Can you contact
HP and get the current set of status codes that will indicate
that the printer is finished?

Patrick Powell

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