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From: gaute@stud.cs.uit.no (Gaute Nessan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Canceling remote print jobs
Message-ID: <1991May15.142107.25132@mack.uit.no>
Date: 15 May 91 14:21:07 GMT
References: <1991May14.192739.546@sunee.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1991May14.192739.546@sunee.waterloo.edu> gordon@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Gordon R. Strachan) writes:
>...  The user on the sun then attempts to
>cancel the print job.  If he types lprm -Pprinter, nothing happens.  If he
>types lprm -Pprinter userid or lprm -Pprinter jobID then the following error
>is retured
>
>Maxwell: cfA034bbcr: Permission denied
>
>...
>
>Anybody seen this one before?  Got any idea how to fix it?

The problem is that the rlpdaemon uses gethostbyaddr() to get the hostname
of the peer host. gethostbyaddr returns a domain qualified name (aaa.bbb.edu).
That name is different from the hostname in the spooling queue, and you get
the error message "Permission denied".  I have a patched version available
by anonymous ftp to hpserv1.cs.uit.no (HP/rlpdaemon.Z).

>Thanks
>Gordon

Gaute
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