topic Re: Shivaport Atom in Operating System - HP-UX

Shivaport Atom

news groups — Thu, 08 Jun 2000 03:28:35 GMT

We have a number of serial printers and dumb terminals connected to our HP-UX system via a Shivaport Atom 5.0 terminal server.
The terminals work fine. The printers sort of work until they get to the last 20 characters of the print jon which then gets chopped off. It appears that when the HPUX has finished sending the print to the shivaport, it kinda says "finished!", at which point the printer is also told "stop - all done", loosing the last 20 chrs or so.

Anyone come across this or found a solution ? The intel/shiva website is useless as it does not mention this. I had heard that there is a patch but this requires a support contract to get the upgrade - and I am dammed if I am going to pay to get a bug fixed !

Thank in advance

Re: Shivaport Atom

CHRIS_ANORUO — Thu, 08 Jun 2000 11:25:17 GMT

log into the printer ports and change their modes to "slave"
(mode:= slave)

Re: Shivaport Atom

David Hicklin — Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:24:48 GMT

We have set the Shiva ports to Slave in the original installation. It does print but drops the last 20 or so characters

Re: Shivaport Atom

John Palmer — Fri, 09 Jun 2000 10:58:47 GMT

How about amending the printer interface script (/etc/lp/interface/ to add 20+ spaces after the last file printed.

Re: Shivaport Atom

David Hicklin — Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:22:19 GMT

Here is the latest status (and a solution):

In the usr/spool/lp/interface directory the file for the printer in question (line) has this command line :

/usr/sbin/rlp -I$requestid $BSDC $BSDJ $BSDT $BSDi $BSD1 $BSD2 $BSD3 $BSD4 $BSDw $BSDformat $BSDh $1

The $1 refers to the file to be printed i.e location + name.

Using a Shivaport Atom using the "rlp" the last 20 characters would get
dropped, but using the "rcp" command all works ok.

So I rem'd out the above line and replaced it with:

rcp $1 shiva001:port14
rcp /usr/spool/lp/interface/PF shiva001:port14

the second line is a small file containing two ^L to force the required page feeds.

This works fine but I am now getting this message in the root email:

From root Wed Jul 5 17:57:03 EDT 2000
Received: (from lp@localhost) by fkivis (8.7.1/8.7.1) id WAA03928 for
root; Wed)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:57:03 +0100 (BST)
From: root
Message-Id: <200007052157.WAA03928@fkivis>
X-Authentication-Warning: fkivis: lp set sender to root using -f

error code 2 in request line-7 on printer line

Any ideas on how to get around this one ? It is only a small annoyance
:)

Thanks
Dave H

Re: Shivaport Atom

Andreas Voss — Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:43:05 GMT

Hi,

put a "exit 0" (without quotes) after your last rcp command.

Hope that helps

Andrew