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Hi,
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I recently installed a print server using CUPS with the intent of
retiring our older Lprng server. We provide printing services for both
Macs and PCs. I'm seeing an intermittent problem under CUPS that I
did not see with Lprng. A user will submit a job and the printer will
print it over and over again. CUPS may even tell me that the print job
is done, but a ps -ef (the OS is FC4), I will see a spurious socket
process with a PPID of 1. Since we do print accounting, the backend is
actually started by a wrapper:
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my $exitval = system {"<i class="moz-txt-slash"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>usr/lib64/cups/backend<span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>$realBackend"} @argv;
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The wrapper itself (the perl system command) thinks the job is done and
the wrapper is no longer running, only the backend is. <br>
Has anybody seen this kind of a problem before? Is this a known bug?
I'm running cups-1.1.23 which is what is bundled with Fedora Core 4.<br>
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Thanks.
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Rob Tanner<br>
UNIX Services Manager<br>
Linfield College, McMinnville OR<br>
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