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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA534 ; Thu, 04 Feb 93 20:00:16 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!nsisrv!Pt!postmaster@hq.af.mil!rick From: rick@postmaster@hq.af.mil Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] "pr file | lpr" reboots box Message-ID: <16980@hq.hq.af.mil> Date: 3 Feb 93 13:30:29 GMT Sender: news@Pt.hq.af.mil Reply-To: rick@hq.af.mil Organization: 7TH Communications Group Lines: 34 In article <16842@hq.hq.af.mil> I wrote: >I recently installed the polling lp driver. >It seems lpr works fine by itself, but when I pipe >something to it, it causes the machine to reboot.:-( I receieved a couple of responses saying that I had not gotten the interruptless driver from agate. It is the interruptless driver, lp.c. I got it off of agate in Terry's subdir (I think). I had installed lpt.c (interrupt driven) at one time and got that to work-- The machine rebooted after I installed it whenever I piped to lpr. So I recompiled everything and the problem went away. Well I recently installed a new system on the same machine, this time I used lp.c. When I ran "pr file | lpr"-- BOOM. So I recompiled everything and still BOOM. Hmmm. Some things I have noticed. When I do "cat file | lpr" it works. It seems that pr may be causing the problems. I still have to dig into this some more. Its not much fun rebooting the hard way while I try to figure out who the culprit is. The only thing I haven't tried is installing lpt.c again and see if this cures the problem. I will do this next. If this clears things up then this would point to some problem in the polling driver perhaps. If anyone has already run into this and knows the fix please let me know. Thanks, -- Rick Weldon I-NET Inc. (Pentagon, 7TH Com Group) E-mail: rick@hq.af.mil Phone: 703-695-5060