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From: rae98@wash08.UUCP (rae98)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,news.admin
Subject: Re: printer queues STICK!
Message-ID: <616@wash08.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 16:08:20 GMT
References: <17267@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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Organization: American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
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In article <17267@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@bellcore.com (tom reingold) writes:
<My printer queues keep sticking!  It happens mostly with our Postscript
<printers, but also with our LaserJet Plus.  I thought maybe it was the
<operating system, SunOS 3.4, but we just upgraded to version 4.0.3 and
<the problem recurs.
<
<Is there something I should look into?  Or does a late version of
<transcript fix this as a known bug?
<
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On our systems (NCR Towers running SYS5R2) this happens also.  We have
been told that this is a problem with the 'lp' suite originating long
ago (before file locking) and having to do with two processes opening
the same lock file at the same time.  If this is the case with yours
also, you can either re-write lp to use file locking instead of lock
files (HA) or live with the problem.

Good Luck.  (And let me know if you come up with alternatives other
		than mine! :) )
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