[NTLUG:Discuss] Printing Woos

[Bug Hunter]

  log in as root, and run 

df

  If you find that disk usage is at 100% for any partition, you will have
the problem nailed.

  You must log in as root and determine where the disk usage is.  It is
almost always in 

  /var/log
  /var/spool

  I believe that RH 5.2 had some log/spool rotation problems in their
early days.  You have probably filled up your hard drive.  Since all
stores print about the same amount of information (or log about the same
amount of information), I expect that the problem should have hit each one
within about 2 or three days.

bug


On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Carter B. Bennett wrote:

> My company ownes Dept. stores, about 47 in all. All of them have a Linux box
> and a printer attached running RH 5.2.
> Hear in our computer room we have an Alpha Box running RH 6.0 with a printer
> hanging off of it locally. My printcap file shows the local lp printer and the
> 47 remote printers.
> 
> The company that wrote our POS software has a Perl script that splits our sales
> audit report by store and sends to the remote print queues and then prints a
> summery report for us. 
> 
> This worked well until about a week ago, all printing stoped. If I send
> something to the local printer, it wont print until I stop and then start lpd.
> But I can't get anything to print at the store levell, I receive the message:
> 
> lpr: connect: connection refused
> jobes queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> I even went to the trouble of deleting all the printers and printer queues and
> starting fresh, but the same thing happened.
> 
> What could be going wrong? Faxing the stores there reports is getting old.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Carter B. Bennett
> The Dunlap Company
> 200 Baily Ave.
> Fort Worth, TX 76107
> 
> Voice: (817) 347-0258
> 
> email: cbbennett at dunlaps.com
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