lpd broken since 1.1.15 :-((

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri May 14 06:00:51 PDT 2004


sparcky at sparckyremove.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can definitely confirm there is something broken in cups for linux.....
> I use lpd for a sms queue on an AIX machine.
> 
> 1.1.15 works perfect.
> 1.1.17 and up fails without any "explaining error"
> (tcpdumped the network and trussed the proc, but no luck)
> 
> I used the cups software on a redhat server and a fedora desktop
> 
> there was NO change in config between the different cups versions.

You probably need to add the "?reserve=yes" option to the end of
the LPD device URI - the default was changed around that time
because too many users were reporting problems with the backend
running out of privileged ports (the LPD spec only supports 11
simultaneous print jobs)

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