Subject: Re: papd problem
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 17:21:12 EDT
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Bill Holyoak wrote:
> > Have you looked in your log files (/var/log/messages) to see if there
> > are
> > errors reported?
> >
> > Papd is very picky about the format of its configuration file, so you
> > might want to verify that:
> >
> > 1. The printer name starts on the first character of the line. No
> > leading
> > spaces or tabs.
> >
> > 2. All the other lines must be tabbed in with one tab character. Spaces
> > won't work.
> >
> > 3. If you use line continuation, make sure you don't have a space after
> > the \, such as ":\ ". The \ must be the last character on the line.
> >
> > Otherwise, your papd.conf above looks good.
>
> Andrew,
>
> False alarm. When I type 'papstatus -p lp' it always shows me that it
> thinks that the spooler is busy. However, I went into LaserWriter 8 after I
> restarted papd and selected my printer and sent a print job to it. This time
> it worked!!! I should think that papstatus would say that the print queue is
> idle when it's not being used, but oh well... as long as it works!
Papd always reports that the queue is busy processing a job. That is
hard-coded into it. I don't know if there is a good way to tell when the
queue is actually idle, especially when you are piping the output to lpr
or another program.
Glad I could help...
Andy
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