lprng maximum job size

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Bryce C on 9/13/2002 16:19 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ I think I read somewhere that's the maximum size for a file on ext2.

Yup.  And my guess is that lpd spools it to disk before sending it to
printer; if your lpd spool is on an ext2 (/3?) partition, you're going
to hit the filesys max cap and truncate your file.

Try chunking the file or reformatting a partition to something else,
like reiser or xfs perhaps.  YMMV.

David