Bug 5163 - lpd having trouble sending job to SVR4, SVR4 not like -h
Summary: lpd having trouble sending job to SVR4, SVR4 not like -h
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: lpr
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-09-15 17:06 UTC by Tom Cross
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-19 16:37:02 UTC
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Description Tom Cross 1999-09-15 17:06:56 UTC 
I have a remote printer setup on my linux box which prints
to a printer on a NCR MP-RAS v3.02 (SVR4 much like UNIXWARE)
box.  When I print to that printer, I get the following love
letter from the NCR box:

Your printer job (itin.out)
could not be printed.

Reason for failure:

UX:lpd: ERROR: The following options can't be handled:
               -h
       TO FIX: The printer(s) that otherwise qualify
               for printing your request can't handle
               one or more of these options. Try
               another printer, or change the options.


I'm using lpr-0.41-2 from rawhide rebuilt on my RH 6.0
machine.  the /etc/printcap entry looks like this:


##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE TEXT NAxNA letter {} TextPrinter
Default {}
lineptr:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lineptr:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:\
        :rm=landru:\
        :rp=lineptr:\
        :if=/var/spool/lpd/lineptr/filter:

As far as I can remember, this worked fine with RH 5.2 but I
don't remember which version of lpr/lpd I was using when it
worked... :(
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-09-23 19:55:59 UTC 
Can you turn on DEBUG_TREE & DEBUG_FILTER in the
filter file to try and get some more information?  Thanks.
Comment 2 Tom Cross 1999-10-08 16:37:59 UTC 
Changed /var/spool/lpd/lineptr/filter to define the DEBUG variables.

Printed using this command:  lpr -Plineptr /etc/issue

Filter DEBUG results:
# cat /tmp/filter.debug
Desired print format is asc
Paper size is letter
A form feed will not be sent.
Magic is |             ASCII text|
Magic is |             ASCII text|
Type of file is INPUT-to-asc
Best path of depth  is cat - | asc-to-printer.fpi


Another love letter from NCR (SVR4) box:
Your printer job (issue)
could not be printed.

Reason for failure:

UX:lpd: ERROR: The following options can't be handled:
               -h
       TO FIX: The printer(s) that otherwise qualify
               for printing your request can't handle
               one or more of these options. Try
               another printer, or change the options.
Comment 3 Tom Cross 1999-10-18 15:13:59 UTC 
Just a quick note:  upgrading to lpr-0.43-2 did not help. :(

Let me know if there is anything you would like me to do...
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-18 16:18:59 UTC 
What happens if you take the :sh: out of the printcap?
Comment 5 Tom Cross 1999-10-19 16:31:59 UTC 
What happens?  Well, it works, that what happens!!  :)

Thanks much!  When printing to a SVR4 lpd printer, remove :sh:??
Works for me...
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-19 16:37:59 UTC 
The 'sh' is the suppress headers option; apparently, when sending
that to the SVR4 lpd, it translated that into a '-h' option, which
it didn't like.

Sorry it took so long to come up with this solution.
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