Check out 'LPRNG' - it should work on both systems and is a damn
	sigh better than what either ship by default :)
	It may not fix the problem, but its worth using anyway - it was
	_so_ nice ditching the lp abortion on our IRIX boxes :)

	ftp://ftp.iona.ie/pub/plp/LPRng/

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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Burns, Scott wrote:

> I have a situation which happened on my Suns's under Solaris V2.4 and I have
> now replicated it on my NetBSD boxes. Sun was less than helpful so I thought
> I might try here ;-)
>
> I have a Xyplex Terminal server with a few HP printers hanging off the unit.
> The Xyplex server provides LPD services and each port on the terminal server
> with a printer attached gets a different queue name, When I set these up
> under printcap on NetBSD all works great, until one of the printers is
> off-line or out of paper etc. The NetBSD box will not send print jobs to any
> printers on that server as it appears if one queue is down at an IP address
> it thinks all queues associated with that address are down. Once that
> printer has it's paper refilled etc. all queues start up again. I know it's
> not a terminal server problem as our VAXen running VMS and Multinet LPD/LPR
> still print fine to the queue's which are not out of paper etc. on that
> server.
>
> Anyone seen this before ? Are there any add on packages for Sun and/or
> NetBSD  which will replace the standard BSD and/or SVR4 lp utilities and not
> have this restriction ? The Sun queue's are my real concern at the moment so
> that package does not have to work with NetBSD right away.
>
> scott
> scott.burns@labatt.com
>