[ILUG-BOM] lpr

S. Krishnan sri_krishnan@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Wed Jul 18 17:44:04 IST 2001


--- Raju Bathija <bathija at theory.tifr.res.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can someone suggest a solution for this lpr problem.
> 
> When lpr command is given,  lpq gives the following
> error message:
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> no space on remote; waiting for queue to drain
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> The machine through which the printer is connected
> is using Red Hat 7.0
> and uses LPRing and the machine from where print
> command is given uses
> Red Hat 6.1 and uses lpr.  Both the machines have
> more than 100 MB space
> free in / partition.  The printing used to work fine
> a few days ago.
> 


Check (on the remote machine)

- the permissions on the /var/spool directory and
subdirs

- whether disk quotas of any sort have been enforced
by anyone

HTH,

Krishnan


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