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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: yp & remote printing
Summary: yp and remote printing
Keywords: yp lp
Message-ID: <594@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 89 03:18:45 GMT
References: <1468@bleen.gwusun.gwu.edu>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <1468@bleen.gwusun.gwu.edu>, kelso@gwusun.gwu.edu (John Kelso) writes:
> When I print a file on peabody that should go to sparko's printer, and
> then issue a lpstat -t command, I see, among other things:
> 
> printer hp7580 now sending hp7580-4 to sparko.
> printer queue for hp7580
> peabody: waiting for sparko to come up
> 

It's not the hosts.equiv table, because that would give access
violations.  I ran into this problem last week and traced it to
inetd not working correctly.  According to the manual on rlpdaemon,
inetd can start remote printer jobs with the entry:

printer stream tcp nowait root /usr/lib/rlpdaemon rlpdaemon -i

This doesn't work, and gave me the same error in a similarly configured
system.  Put the command /usr/lib/rlpdaemon in your rc file and it'll
work just great (you will see  [rlpdaemon] listed in a ps -ef).  The
line to start lpdaemon goes at the end ofthe localrc() function.
For clusters, since rc is NOT a context dependent file, you need to do
something like:

        # Start remote printer daemon.
        if [ "`uname -n`" = sparko ]
        then    
                echo "Starting remote printer daemon."
                /usr/lib/rlpdaemon
        else
                echo "No remote printing"
        fi

in order to stop discless nodes from starting the rlp daemon.  Hope
this helps...

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