Re: apsfilter doesn't work on server

[Christian Ullrich <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Michael Loßin wrote on Tuesday, 2002-01-15:

> On 15-Jan-02 Christian Ullrich wrote:

> Which spooler do you use on those?

BSD lpd on the Server, LPRng on the client.

> Please try to use LPRng on server *and* client machines, since
> the old BSD-style lpd has some problems with remote printing.

I'll try that ASAP.

> > - When I try to print anything else, say, a tar file, the job just
> >   goes somewhere and I never hear of it again.
> 
> That "somewhere" is your printer, but it doesn't speak tar,
> so that file is just discarded.

That sounds reasonable, although I don't quite buy into it yet.
The printer insists on a ^D at the end of a job, otherwise it
keeps blinking (until some timeout or other elapses). In this
case, it didn't even start.

> > Is it at all possible to just send the data from the client to the 
> > server, and let the server do all the file type recognition and 
> > PostScript conversion? Or do I have to do that on every client 
> > separately?
> 
> That would pretty much defeat the purpose of a printer server,
> so it should be possible, of course.

You give me hope.

> ># bounce queue?
> > lp:\
> >     :lp=/dev/null:\
> >       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:
> >       
> > /etc/apsfilter/lp/lpr.conf contains "REMOTE_NAME=real_lp".
> 
> As long as there's no if=... line for "lp" that calls apsfilter,
> it's not useful to create /etc/apsfilter/lp/lpr.conf ... it
> simply won't be used :)

You are right, of course. I will try that as well.

> However, you wouldn't need the bounce queue at all if the
> filter would be called properly... Catch 22, I guess :^)
> 
> I'm sufficiently confused now... Hasn't anyone succeeded in
> building a printer server with apsfilter yet?
> Or is it just the BSD-lpd that causes this?

Well, I have searched the Internet quite a bit for people with
either the same problem, or, even better, a solution. I haven't
found anything.

> > relevant part of printcap on client:
> > 
> > lp_net|remote printer on ser1:\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp_net:\
> >         :rm=ser1:\
> >         :rp=lp:\
> >         :bk:sh:mx#0:
> 
> Do we need an :lp=...: line here? Even if it's just
> :lp=/dev/null:  or  :lp=:  ?

IIRC, if I include an lp= line, LPRng spits at me for doing
both lp and rm.

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