Return to BSD News archive
Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA500 ; Wed, 03 Feb 93 19:02:08 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!caen!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!copper!mercury.cair.du.edu!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!smace From: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: lpr reboots box Message-ID: <1993Feb2.224417.19421@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 2 Feb 93 22:44:17 GMT References: <16842@hq.hq.af.mil> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. Lines: 36 X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. In article <16842@hq.hq.af.mil> rick@hq.af.mil writes: >I recently installed the polling lp driver. >It seems lpr works fine by itself, but when I pipe >something to it, it causes the machine to reboot.:-( > >I rebuilt lpr,lpd lpc etc... and the libutil library >as well as "pr" and boom it still reboots. > > > >$ pr file.c | lpr > >It prints the first couple of lines of the file and >then reboots. > >Anybody hit this one or know of the fix? >Perhaps there is something I didn't rebuild that I >should have. > >Thankyou > >-- >Rick Weldon I-NET Inc. >E-mail: rick@hq.af.mil I think the problem is the actual lpt.c I had similar problems until I got a patched lpt.c driver from a site in germany (can't remember which) I just posted two drivers that will work. look for the title lpdriver.shar --- a set of........ Scott Mace -- ********************************************************************* * Scott Mace internet: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu * * emace@tenet.edu * *********************************************************************