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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: lpd problem
Message-ID: <10785@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 13:05:10 EST
Article-I.D.: teknowle.10785
Posted: Mon Mar 16 13:05:10 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Mar-87 02:29:14 EST
References: <110@hanauma.UUCP>
Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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In article <110@hanauma.UUCP> stew@hanauma.UUCP (Stewart Levin) writes:
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>OS:  Sun 4.2 Unix  Release 3.2
>
>We've tried recently to bring up our imagen spooling software on our
>new Sun workstations.  Our problem is that the line printer demon /etc/lpd
>gets fired up, chews up a lot of CPU, and never successfully execs any of
>the imagen filters.   When compiled without the initial sequence that

We had the same problem.  The fix supplied by Sun tech. support (it worked
for us) is that because the imagen filters are invoked by lpd, which is a
suid root program, you have to add a "-b" flag to the filter; i.e., at the
top of the imfilter shell script, change "#!/bin/csh -f" to "#!/bin/csh -fb".
BTW, we are running Sun OS 3.2, Imagen release 2.2 and ethernetted Imagen
24/300s.

Mike Khaw
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