Drowning in "lpd[nnnnnn]: ERROR -- lp: cannot lock file lock: No such file or directory" messages

From: Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics (speakmaj_at_MSKCC.ORG)
Date: 09/29/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:20:42 -0400
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    Hi all

    Two node cluster of GS80s running 5.1apk3. Ever since we set up a
    couple of printers, using lpr, we have gotten a lot of "lpd[nnnnnn]:
    ERROR -- lp: cannot lock file lock: No such file or directory" messages.
    Sometimes lp is another printer, seems to be always what was printed on
    last. The funny thing is we don't do much printing; maybe two or three
    jobs a day. But the jobs we do print come out fine. This first started
    happening months ago; I first noticed because we got a few "high event
    activity" e-mails and it turned out to be zillions of these messages.
    Printing seems to work just fine, so foolishly I just thought "dumb
    machine, bothering me with this stuff" and put a little filter in the
    sysman EVM viewer to filter them out, then went back to sleep.

    Then last week /var filled up all the way and I realize it's these
    wretched messages. I deleted the lpr logs from the subdirectories
    within syslog.dated to give us some breathing space, but I need a more
    permanent solution. There are 2500 files in the evmlog directory,
    mainly consisting of billions of these messages. There are now so many
    I can't even run EVM from sysman, or even an evmget for the last five
    seconds, without filling up the /tmp directory, i.e., the root
    partition, with a jumbo temporary file.

    Any ideas? Thanks in advance; I will summarize.
    John

    John Speakman
    Manager, Clinical Research Systems
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, NY, USA
    646 735 8187 / speakman@biost.mskcc.org

     
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