retry for sending to lpd printers stops

[Jim Giles]

I have numerous printers configured on a WAN from my Tru64 system using lprsetup. These printers will occasionally go offline from some reason, the lpd daemon appears to "give up" trying to send to the printer and will not retry until an "lpc restart " command restarts an lpd daemon. The original daemon has died.

Is there a configuration option somewhere that forces the lpd daemon to continue trying to send to the printer so a restart is not required?

[Eric van Dijken]

You know there is a reason why it works the way it works. ;)

Don't know a way to extend the time-out for the lpd daemon. Don't think there is one.

You could ofcourse always write a cron script that checks the printers and restarts them, if needed.

[Ralf Puchner]

lpd restries to send the job to the remote side, expanding the time frame between the retries.

Be sure you have installed the latest patchkit due to some timing issue fixes in newer patchkits.

There is no timing parameter, please check also the log files and network for communication problems.