Re: Wisconsin difax map printing from LDM 6.0.10 on FreeBSD

• To: "Neil R. Smith" <neils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Wisconsin difax map printing from LDM 6.0.10 on FreeBSD
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:30:23 -0600

Neil,

>Date: 10 Apr 2003 15:48:10 -0500
>From: "Neil R. Smith" <neils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Wisconsin difax map printing from LDM 6.0.10 on FreeBSD

The above message contained the following:

> Hi folks, 
> I'm stumped here on something that used to work on our SGI IRIX box
> running LDM 5.2 but is not working on its replacement box, a dual Xeon
> box running FreeBSD 4.7. It's the printing of the UW-Madison difax maps
> via a pqact entry piping the gziped postscript files to Pete Pokrandt's
> 'printmap.csh' script, which is just a gunzip of stdin piped to an lpr
> or lp command.
> 
> Here's an example pqact.conf entry:
> DIFAX   ^one.avn4panel.*.ps.gz
>         PIPE    -close /usr/local/ldm/util/printmap.csh
> 
> With the printmap.csh line being executed:
> /usr/bin/gzip -dc | /usr/bin/lp -d difax
> where 'difax' is the printer.
> 
> Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pbuf_flush (8) write: Broken pipe
> Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pipe_dbufput:
> -close/usr/local/ldm/util/printmap.csh write error

I don't know "printmap.csh", but the above messages indicate that it 
terminated for some reason before the pqact(1) utility had finished
writing all the data to it.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson