Print Command not working

[Drew Morone]

 At 09:32 AM 3/24/99 -0800, Herb Lewis wrote:
>make sure you specify the full path to your print command. The
>environment in samba may not find the command.
>

Hmm. I tried this, but a few hours later, it happened again. 
Like I said, it works fine for a while. Usually I can just restart samba,
and it will continue to work., then it dies.
I am seeing a lot of "lpq command" instances in the log.  More than the
"Print command". Do you think I need to increase my "lpq cache time"?

Drew



>
>Drew Morone wrote:
>> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I'm having an unusual problem.
>> We are running Samba 1.9.18p8 on an Intel PII running Unixware 2.1.2.
>> Recently recently we've been seeing problems with samba printing.
>> We've narrowed it down to a problem with the "Print Command" function in
>> smb.conf.
>> At some point, whatever is configured as the "Print Command", never gets
>> executed. Even if the print command is to just copy the print file to the
>> /tmp directory (which is what I ended up doing to try to isolate the problem
>> away from system printing issues). The odd thing is that if I start samba
>> with a debug of 5, it -shows- the command being issued in the log files. The
>> following shows that the command to move the print file to the /tmp
>> directory was run:
>> 
>> Running the command `cat /home/public/spool/drew.b006Rx | lp -d hp3main'
gave 0
>> 1999/03/24 11:07:05 tdrew closed file drew.b006Rx (numopen=0)
>> 
>> I assume that the "gave 0" means that the command returned a "true" exit
>> status. The command never actually executes.
>> 
>> The solution has been to restart samba. That would work for a few minutes,
>> then I would have to do it again.
>> 
>> Also note that all of the other samba services continued to work without any
>> problems.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing this problem?
>> 
>> Drew
>
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