SUMMARY: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F

From: Williams, David J <David.J.Williams_at_au.faulding.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 15:40:34 +0930

I wrote the below on Friday 3/9/99.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Williams, David J
        Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 16:11
        To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
        Subject: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F

        We have two machines running Digital Unix 4.0E and 4.0F
respectively.

        The output in /usr/adm/syslog.dated/*/lpr.log on both machines
contains what appears to be debugging information. That is, a lot of noise,
unless you are actually trying to debug a printing problem.

        When I did a grep for lpd on a full process listing I found that lpd
is running without the -l option.

        Does anyone know how to turn debugging off?

        Please reply directly to me and I will summarise.

        Thanks,

        David

        David J Williams
        Technical Specialist
        Information Services
        F H Faulding & Co Limited
        Tel: +61 8 8408 3450/ Fax: +61 8 8408 3500
        mailto:david.j.williams_at_au.faulding.com
        http:www.faulding.com

Thankyou to all who responded. Responses are included below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Petrie L M [mailto:lmp_at_ornl.gov]
Sent: Saturday, 4 September 1999 1:49
To: David.J.Williams_at_au.faulding.com
Subject: Re: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F


Hi

You need to edit the line in /etc/syslog.conf that reads

lpr.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log

and change it to something like

lpr.info /var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log


Info prints some (possibly) useful information, but not nearly as much as
debug.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Zack Hubert [mailto:zhubert_at_uwpn.org]
Sent: Saturday, 4 September 1999 1:34
To: 'Williams, David J'
Subject: RE: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F
You need to modify your /etc/syslog.conf so the line that looks like:
lpr.debug	/var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log
Looks like the following instead
lpr.info	/var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log
Hope that helps...
Zack Hubert (zhubert_at_uwpn.org)
UW Physicians Network
UNIX Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Borah [mailto:jeff_at_snyfarvg.cc.farmingdale.edu]
Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 23:52
To: Williams, David J
Subject: Re: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F
 David,
   You can make a change in you /etc/syslog.conf. 
 Change the lpr.debug to lpr.info (or what you want).
 To get more info man syslogd.
 HTH
 Jeff Borah
 SUNY Farmingdale
 jeff_at_snyfarvg.cc.farmingdale.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Borah [mailto:jeff_at_snyfarvg.cc.farmingdale.edu]
Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 23:52
To: Williams, David J
Subject: Re: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F
 David,
   You can make a change in you /etc/syslog.conf. 
 Change the lpr.debug to lpr.info (or what you want).
 To get more info man syslogd.
 HTH
 Jeff Borah
 SUNY Farmingdale
 jeff_at_snyfarvg.cc.farmingdale.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Warren, John H. [mailto:JHWARREN_at_ESCOCORP.com]
Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 23:50
To: 'Williams, David J'
Subject: RE: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F
Edit your /etc/syslog.conf file. Change the line that reads lpd.debug to
lpd.warning. 
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Sean O'Connell [mailto:sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU]
Sent:	Friday, 3 September 1999 22:37
To:	Williams, David J
Subject:	Re: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F
David-
Not sure about lpd flags, but I imagine that you could decrease 
the verbosity of what is logged by changing the log level in 
/etc/syslog.conf and HUP'ing syslogd.
It looks like out of the box...
lpr.debug		/var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log
maybe change to
lpr.warn		/var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log
or similar
S
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-----Original Message-----
From:	John P Speno [mailto:speno_at_isc.upenn.edu]
Sent:	Friday, 3 September 1999 20:51
To:	Williams, David J
Subject:	Re: lpd printing under Digital Unix 4.0E, 4.0F
I don't think you can stop lpd from being verbose. You can instead alter
the syslog level you log for the lpr facility.
Instead of lpr.debug, try lpr.notice or lpr.info.

Received on Mon Sep 06 1999 - 06:15:45 NZST