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This is more by way of a warning, although if anyone has any tips I'm all ears. As you may or may not know the new RHEL distros have entirely eliminated the good old LPRng spooler in favour of the infamous "cups" system. Our particular application has been releasing batches of jobs (invoices actually) under RH LPRng, SCO sysv spooler, even DG/UX, and the jobs ALWAYS came out in perfect order. NOW however, under the new and improved CUPS, the spooler completely misorders the print jobs, which makes life difficult, because it also has a nasty habit of dropping print jobs. I was even so stupid as to pay for CUPS support. Here is the response I got:
The problem is NOT in CUPS, and we will NOT be making changes to CUPS to workaround this problem in your software.
They tell me I was "lucky" never to see the problem under all those other print spoolers.
Yeah, right. And it was just a big F***ing coincidence that the jobs came out in order.
Anyway, if you want to try and put LPRng on a RHEL3 or 4 system, good luck with that because RH won't support it. I have basically got it working, but it is complicated as hell, especially if you need to use Samba. If anyone else needs help with that I can tell you how I got things working. If you are ever considering going to CUPS for support or custom work though, I wouldn't even consider it.
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