[rqmedes]

HI

I was wondering if anyone had some insight.
I have a Red hat 7.3 machine sending remote jobs to a SCO unix Machine running as a print server.

The print queue on the sco server has no problems at all,

the print server on the Linux server has been running fine for months but now all off a sudden locks up several times a day,
I can clear it bye flushing the print queue's restarting the lpd
but this is happeining at times every few minutes,

when the print spooler locks up i cannot write to /var/spool/lpd directory as it say device is full.
I am also getting strange errors that /dev/shm is full from time to time with these print errors. everything else seems to run ok it is just the print spooler that is causing problems.

lpstat is also showing strange device full errors like

Get_queue_status: cannot open 'lpq' - No space left on devi
ce

THe only factor that i think has some effect (although i don't know how) is that a lot of the network PC's had the bugbear virus, that printed out garbage to every printer on the spool. at the time when the printing problems occured, this completely filled up the log files that i had to clear out, none of the printers would work after that (even after being deleted and re-added) so i had to delete all printers and associated spool directories and filters etc etc, and re-install worked for a few days, now it falls over all the time.

Sorry for the length of post any ideas will be welcome
i really don't want to reinstall red-hat but i am thinking that is the only soultion

Cheers

[downtime]

Just a thought, what's your partitioning setup on the RH machine?

[rqmedes]

HI
just a follow up that you might find interesting,

when i did a df it showed gigs of space on all mount points

when i did a df -i i found i only had 6 inodes left for /var
so if there were more than 3 print jobs runing at the same time
ran out of inodes,

tracking it back i found thousands of 0 size error logs in the mailman directory.. I am quite sure this was caused by the bug-bear virus that was still present on a network PC.

regards,

[lynch]

Dont you just love those runaway logfiles?
Thanks for sharing your findings.
lynch