Print queues + clock on Sun386i

Patrick Champion pdcst at unix.cis.pitt.edu
Sat Dec 15 05:18:38 AEST 1990


I have two problems.  First when I use to have a deskjet hooked up to our
Sun.  It printed fine from both DOS and Unix.  I disconnected it a long
time ago.  Recently I have been getting the 386 back into shape and was
connecting a Laserjet II to it.  I managed to get one printing out of it
accidentally from DOS but ever after, even after rebooting and
reinstalling via SNAP the LJ on the serial port A, I have yet to get
anything to print.

When I do an lpq it shows some of the jobs.  Usually the first one or two
never make it to the queue. But it also shows that no daemon is present.
Yet when I do a ps -ax I see lpd running.

What's up?

Second problem is that our clock seems to be running really fast.  It
gains an hour a week while the Sun is running and if it is turned off it
gains an hour every other hour or so.  Also, when booting it says that the
clock could not be set and that I would have to set it.  So I su and set
via date but that still doesn't keep the clock from racing ahead after
awhile.

I thought that at one point the clock was only gaining when the Sun was
off and since we have rebooted at least once a week, most of the gain
could be from there, but I don't think so.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.  You can't believe the effort I
have to go through to print something.  I have to ftp/mail stuff to one
machine then dec copy it to our vax to print at present.  What a pain.



More information about the Comp.sys.sun mailing list