Subject: Re: printing "problems"...
From: Andras Kadinger (bandit@surfnonstop.com)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 00:21:29 EDT
Walt wrote:
>
> A couple things seem to me to be a bit
> wierd about how my mac prints to my
> Harlequin RIPstation.
>
> First, I get recurring entries like the following
> in my /var/log/messages file:
>
> Oct 1 04:21:51 gandalf papd[858]: child 10620 for "Rip-2400-133" from 65344.80
> Oct 1 04:21:51 gandalf papd[10620]: lp_print queued
> Oct 1 04:21:51 gandalf papd[858]: child 10620 done
> Oct 1 04:27:23 gandalf papd[858]: child 11079 for "Rip-2400-133" from 65344.80
> Oct 1 04:27:23 gandalf papd[11079]: lp_print queued
> Oct 1 04:27:23 gandalf papd[858]: child 11079 done
>
> Apparently every 6 minutes which is causing
> the file to become fairly large. Also, the RIP
> log keeps getting entries that say:
>
> [exitserver: permanent state may be changed]
Not sure what causes this; the log entries above definitely indicate a
machine with the appletalk address 65344.80 connecting to your server
and submitting a job. You might want to look up the machine the address
belongs to, and look there further.
> The mac only seems to be able to print documents
> that do not use a lot of fonts or other complexities.
> Anything in the least bit 'tricky' causes a variety
> of non-sensical errors to come up on the RIP.
> From the appearance of it, it *looks* like some
> info is getting garbled or mis-encoded in
> transmission.
There used to exist versions of papd mishandling binary data. Which
version of netatalk do you use?
If you use the old source tree from asun, make sure a
# grep -i crlflength etc/papd/file.*
in your netatalk source directory doesn't come up empty; if it does, you
have an old papd, and should apply at least my binary-safeness patch at
http://www.surfnonstop.com/~bandit/letterabol/netatalk/pre-asun2.1.4-36a-papd-binary-2.patch.gz
or, even better, use Andrew Morgan's papd patches. Andrew, what was the
URL to your patch again?
Regards,
Andras
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