Re: apsfilter doesn't filter :-)

[Gerrit Kühn <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:16:47PM +0100, Christian Ullrich wrote:

> > The lpr manpage says that -Ff is the default setting (which I believed
> > :-), but it obviously uses -Fl as default here; so explicitly stating

> That rings a bell. You're not using an older SuSE Linux, are you?

Nope, that's an old(?) Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 eDesktop.

> I'm asking because in SuSE 7.3, they did just what you describe:
> They changed the default format from f to l without telling anyone,
> and they did it by patching the code, not in lpd.conf.

Seems to match what I saw here: the man-pages still stated that -Ff was
the default. And I kept wondering and wondering why the damned thing
wasn't working as expected... :-(

> If your older LPRng has the lpd.conf file, it should suffice to add
> default_format=f

Thanks for the hint. It had that file, but meanwhile I have upgraded to
3.8.6 (fresh from source :-). 
The problem was gone, then. Also my bounce-queues seem to work now. 
However, I still can't use them from all other machines around.
There's a SuSE 7.1 here with BSD/LPD that is bounced and filtered fine,
but also a SuSE 7.3 with LPRng that causes this message on the Caldera
System:

Feb 20 18:22:43 mako RECV[4876]: torak_pcl: Check_for_missing files:
missing data file 'dfA344theq.pmp.uni-hannover.de'


Looks strange to me, I've never seen anything like this before and even
Google didn't come up with anything useful. Somehow the file doesn't
make it onto the hd of the bouncing machine.
Well, the SuSE-machines are actually not managed by me but by a
colleague of mine, so perhaps I can pass this problem on... :-) Anyway,
if someone here has an idea how to fix this, I'd be glad to get a hint
(and I guess my colleague, too :-).


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