cups printing fails every monday.

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Nov 29 07:24:53 PST 2004


kevin wrote:
> i have the same problem on two different machines. Each monday, the client machine running rh9 and printing to a local dot matrix, or to a dot matrix on a print server, is non functional on monday morning.
> 
> there is no error report(s) visible in /var/log/messages. The printer appears normal using lpc and lpq. When a test job is run using lpr this appears. yet the users are adamant that their printing will not appear.
> 
> We have located a log entry which appears odd. the cups daemon seems to have restarted on each machine at 4:00 am monday.
> 
> Does anybody know why it might, and if it would affect the printer?

Could be that logrotate is restarting cupsd at that time?

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