Re: [uug] Print Question

[Andrew Jorgensen]

This really does sound like a virus to me (If you have the printer set 
up in Samba). The virus tries to copy itself to other computers, but it 
doesn't care if the share is a printer or a file share.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

OK, I've done my research and found in 
/var/spool/lpd/Sam_670/lpq.0/Sam_670.acct the following (Sam_670 
is the name of the printer)

jobstart '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA461mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-04-12:33:27.000'
jobend '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA461mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-04-12:33:46.000'
jobstart '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA179mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-05-14:21:51.000'
jobend '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA179mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-05-14:22:05.000'
jobstart '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA260mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-08-18:12:39.000'
jobend '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA260mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-08-18:12:53.000'
jobstart '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA435mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-12-15:43:02.000'
jobend '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA435mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-12-15:43:21.000'
jobstart '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA719mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-13-13:46:12.000'
jobend '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA719mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-13-13:46:31.000'
jobstart '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA215mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-15-18:20:27.000'
jobend '-Hmugleston.mugs.net' '-nnobody' '-PSam_670' 
'-kcfA215mugleston.mugs.net' '-b50688' 
'-t2003-07-15-18:20:52.000'


From what I can tell by looking at the whole file this print job 
kicks off when Sam turns his computer/printer on every day.  This 
file is on my Linux Server so it is sending something to Sam_670 
when it sees if for the first time.

It wouldn't be so bad if it printed off something recognizable 
but it prints off pages and pages (normally it runs out of paper 
before it's done).  All the printout is garbage.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Brad

On 13 Jul 2003, Kekoa Vincent wrote:


Where can I read a print log? it's not in /var/log/
Well, for me, I'm using cups, so its logs are in /var/log/cups .  In
looking at my /var/log directory, I see a lpr.log, which I assume could
be a print log, but it is empty for me because I'm using cups.  Do you
have LPRng set up?  I wouldn't know to do, since I've only used cups
since I've started using linux.  If you don't have any printing system
installed, then it shouldn't be sending things to printers, especially
network printers.  Well, at least I don't think it should be.
Good Luck!
-Kekoa
btw, I like cups.  It's been good to me.

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