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- From: bell@hops.larc.nasa.gov (John Bell)
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- Subject: enq fills up /var and leaves it
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:35:06 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
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- I found an interesting behavior problem on my RS6K today. A user tried to
- print a 10MB file using lpr. When the spool file filled up /var, enq reported
- that the spool device was full (this message is directed to the user who
- issued the lpr command) and aborted, leaving the spool file in
- /var/spool/qdaemon. Of course, having a full /var causes all kinds of
- problems, since nobody can save edited files or spool other printouts then.
- When I called IBM, they said that this behavior was "expected", since enq
- didn't "know what to do when the spool device filled up". Does this make sense
- to anyone out there? Of course I have instituted the obvious workaround,
- which is making people use lp instead of lpr, but I feel that it shouldn't be
- that hard to have enq delete the temporary spool file if the spool device
- fills up.
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- John Bell
- NASA Langley Research Center
- bell@hops.larc.nasa.gov
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