From: Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics (speakmaj@MSKCC.ORG)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 17:20:42 EDT
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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