Ich würde (wie immer:-) mir mal per strace angucken, was da denn so eigentlich passiert:

strace -tt -f -o xxx -f -ff lp druckdatei.ps

...und das dann so oft aufrufen, bis es mal hängt.

MfG, JBG

OK, anbei die Ausgabe gekürzt, der 12te Job hängt 5 Minuten. Kann mir jemand die Zeilen erklären, mein Halbwissen ist hier am Ende. 11:19:03.682107 recv(3, "HP LaserJet 5000 Series PS on bo"..., 35, 0) = 35 11:19:03.682177 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.682237 recv(3, "#", 1, 0) = 1 11:19:03.682297 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.682357 recv(3, "\0\f", 2, 0) = 2 11:19:03.682420 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.682479 recv(3, "printer-type", 12, 0) = 12 11:19:03.682543 brk(0x819a000) = 0x819a000 11:19:03.682618 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.682750 recv(3, "\0\4", 2, 0) = 2 11:19:03.682820 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.682880 recv(3, "\0\0\260V", 4, 0) = 4 11:19:03.682945 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.683005 recv(3, "\3", 1, 0) = 1 11:19:03.683095 time(NULL) = 1039083543 11:19:03.683155 recv(3, "", 97, 0) = 0 11:24:02.881433 close(3) = 0 11:24:02.881881 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0 11:24:02.882078 gettimeofday({1039083842, 882110}, NULL) = 0 11:24:02.882494 open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY) = 3 11:24:02.882612 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 11:24:02.882676 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 11:24:02.882748 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5884, ...}) = 0 11:24:02.882855 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40016000 11:24:02.882952 read(3, "## Configured using SAM by root "..., 4096) = 4096 11:24:02.883295 read(3, "1 \n104.0.0.82 \ttbo2\n104.0.0.9"..., 4096) = 1788 11:24:02.883481 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 11:24:02.883551 close(3) = 0 11:24:02.883611 munmap(0x40016000, 4096) = 0 mfg Matthias Vennekötter