Printing and Syslog

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Hi all,

I am trying to log whatever happening related to my lp daemon. I tried editing /etc/syslog.conf with

lp.*/var/mylog/lp.log

And i did a

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

But i am not getting any lp daemon error logs there.

Need advice?

Thanks
Vijay

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Vijay,

LP logs are normally kept in /var/adm/lp/log. Why are you redurecting to another file? It already has it's own log.

Also the system keeps no .pid file for lp AFAIK, so you'd have to determine the pid
ps -ef | grep lp
then kill the PID
kill LP_PID

Then check the log file. Should also log all jobs in there.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Also, run lp verbose:

lpsched -v

That way more info will go into the:

/var/adm/lp/lp.log

Rgds...Geoff

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Thanks Jeff and Geoff.

Jeff: I followed to your procedure to send HUP to syslog. but no luck.

I think i didn't run LP daemon it using verbose mode. I already checked lp log. And there is nothing.

Anyway, Is there a way to log lpsched using syslog? Why my lp.* is not working with syslog as expected?

Thanks again
Vijay

[Geoff Wild]

What if you try:

lpr.*


Rgds...Geoff