[plug] Printing problem (lprng/lpd config?)

[Peter Wright]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:47:29AM +0800, Colin Rothnie wrote:
[ I said: ]
> > So it appears to hang as it's "requesting printer funky at localhost".
>
> It isn't as simple as a resolving issue is it?  Could lpd be waiting for
> "localhost" to be resolved? Perhaps you have DNS set with higher priority
> than your hosts file and there is no DNS server available.

Damn, I was really hopeful for a moment that you might have got it there,
Colin - as I'd started trying to set up bind a little while ago on that box
but got distracted by something else in the interim. But after a check, no
- localhost gets resolved fine, and I haven't got the host IP listed as a DNS
in /etc/resolv.conf.

Thanks, a good suggestion though.

Actually, now I think about it a bit more, I realise that it wouldn't be
that in any case, as you'll see from the debug output I attached in my
original mail:

2001-04-23-12:35:20.026 stan [2679] lpr  funky: setstatus: msg 'connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1'                        
2001-04-23-12:35:20.057 stan [2679] lpr  funky: setstatus: msg 'connected to 'localhost''                                    
2001-04-23-12:35:20.060 stan [2679] lpr  funky: setstatus: msg 'requesting printer funky at localhost'                          
[ and it stops here ]

It appears to connect okay to localhost, it's just the request for
printer "funky" that is the problem. Hmm, I wonder if I can run lpd with
more useful debugging output....

Pete.
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