Subject: FW: [netatalk-admins] Large print jobs with papd...
From: Les Klein (les@psgroup.cix.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 20 1998 - 06:02:31 EDT
Hi Jonathan
>
> umm, doesn't a PAP job get temporarily spooled on to the linux box before
it
> goes through the filter and out to the printer, or something like that?
>
> You might be running out of room on your /var or /tmp partitions?
>
> Try a df and if one of those drives has about 256MB free than that MIGHT
be the
> problem.
>
> Ie. I'm just taking a wild guess here as I don't have time to investigate
my
> own theory.
>
The job gets spooled into /var/spool/.... and there are 1.6GB free on that
partition.
Les.
---------------
> Les Klein wrote:
>
> > I have been unable to print files greater than 256MB via PAP from
Macintosh
> > computers running OS8 and OS8.1 to my Linux box running netatalk 1.4.2b.
> > If the file is bigger than 256MB only 268,414,976 bytes get rec'd by the
> > Linux box and then the PAP protocol seems to breakdown in some way since
no
> > more data gets transferred.
> > Printing the same files from these Mac's to an HP 2500 CP with PAP
running
> > on the JetDirect card in the HP works fine so I am fairly sure the
problem
> > is not at the Mac end of things.
> > Does anyone know anything about this?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Les.
> > PS: I can provide an EtherPeek packet trace if anyone needs one.
>
>
>
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