Bug 5697

Could you try the lpr package from Raw Hide
(ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/) and let us know if that
works better for you?  Remote printing works OK here...

------- Additional Comments From   10/08/99 03:54 -------
I had the same problem printing from a 6.1 box to a 6.0 box. after
downgrading lpr to the package in 6.0, everything works. I use
hosts.equiv authorization on the server.

Using lpr-0.41-3 from rawhide solves the problem here.

I confirm, lpr-0.41-3 solves this problem for me, too.

lpr-0.41-3 only partially fixes the problem. The current solution
will not work for multiple copies.

Here is what I think is a more elegant solution to the problem. I'm
not sure I can paste a patch on this little box on the bugtraq web
page, but here goes... (I'm also submitting a similar patch to Debian
lpr, which is also based off of Redhat's 0.41 lpr; I'm actually a
Debian user <grin>). If this doesn't paste well and you're interested
in it, email me privately and I'll resend it.

--- ../lpr-0.41/lpd/printjob.c  Wed Sep 29 13:05:11 1999
+++ lpd/printjob.c      Fri Oct  8 03:45:14 1999
@@ -756,7 +756,6 @@ sendit(file)
        int  ifchild, pid;
        int  sendresult;
        int  tmpmask;
-       int  numcopies=0;

        int  ii;

@@ -875,16 +874,22 @@ sendit(file)

                        strcpy(last, line);
                        /* handle multiple copies */
-                       while (i = getline(cfp))
+                       while (i = getline(cfp)) {
+                         if (dup_cfp)
+                           fprintf(dup_cfp, "%s\n", line);
                                if (strcmp(last, line))
                                        break;
-                               else
-                                       numcopies++;
+                       }


                        /* msf - here is where we hack in IF
support    */
                        /*       will only run the IF, no other
filters */
                        /*       will be
run.                           */
+                       /* This hack will work for multiple files
only  */
+                       /* if the 'f' lines are separated by at
least   */
+                       /* one non-'f' line (i.e. a U or N line) due
to */
+                       /* the multiple copies getline() while
loop     */
+                       /* right above this
comment.                    */
                        if (IF != NULL && last[0] == 'f') {

                            memcpy(tmpfile, last+1, 7);
@@ -895,11 +900,6 @@ sendit(file)
                            /* Nasty trick of the day, to attempt
                             * to be RFC compliant */
                            rename(last+1,tmpfile);
-                           /* we make a new f and U entry for remote
cfp */
-
-                           for (;numcopies>0;numcopies--)
-                                 fprintf(dup_cfp, "f%s\n",last+1);
-                           fprintf(dup_cfp, "U%s\n",last+1);

                            fi = open(tmpfile, O_RDONLY);
                            ifi = open
(last+1,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0664);
@@ -918,11 +918,6 @@ sendit(file)
                          /* wait on it to finish */
                          waitpid(ifchild, NULL, 0);
                         }
-                        else
-                        {
-                         if (dup_cfp)
-                           fprintf(dup_cfp, "%s\n", line);
-                         }

                         sendresult = sendfile('\3', last+1);

OK, could you try the lpr-0.42-1 RPMs at
ftp://people.redhat.com/notting/lpr/
-or-
http://people.redhat.com/notting/lpr/

to make sure it still works for everyoone?  It checks out fine here...

lpr-0.42-1 works ok here.


------- Additional Comments From   10/14/99 06:45 -------
I had the same problem. lpr-0.42-1 seems to fix it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5835 ***