[SAGE] Re: Looking for help with SCO Open Server Print Services

[Thomas J Pinkl <tom@hbsrx.com>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:56:44AM -0500, John  Boris wrote:
> I have a problem that cleared up by itself on one of my servers but is
> still occurring on another.
> I have a group of servers located around the county that talk back to
> my office via our WAN over TCP/IP. They are all SCO OpenServer 5.0.6
> boxes. For what ever reason last week two of these servers could no
> longer print to the server in my office. The lpstat output says that
> server1 lost connection to server2. and server3 lost connection to
> server2. It also says that it is waiting for server 2 to come up. I can
> ssh to the boxes that can't print. Nothing changed on these servers and
> from what I can see in the logs there aren't any messages except for the
> lost connection message. 
> While troubleshooting this the one server just started printing. So I
> moved to the next one trying to repeat my troubleshooting steps but to
> no avail.
> There is a firewall between these servers and the rules haven't been
> changed. We looked there and even reloaded the rules.
> Searching SCO's Knowledge Center is no help. Are there any other SCO
> users on the list that have seen this. 

John, I've had similar issues with network printing on OpenServer 5.0.5. 
I have no experience with 5.0.6 or 5.0.7. 

While I don't know the root cause (other than a buggy lpd server), I've 
been able to restore print services by killing all of the "lpd" processes
and then restarting the lpd server with "/usr/lib/lpd -l". 

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