topic Re: print subsystem in Operating System - HP-UX

print subsystem

Rene_17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:27:00 GMT

how to shutdown the print subsystem on HPUX11i ?

Re: print subsystem

Mark Grant — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:30:30 GMT

I think you are after the "lpshut" command.

Re: print subsystem

Zigor Buruaga — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:31:57 GMT

Hi,

"lpshut" stops the LP scheduler.
"lpsched" to start it again.

Kind regards,
Zigor

Re: print subsystem

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:33:41 GMT

Hi Rene,

# /sbin/init.d/lp stop

# /sbin/init.d/lp start

Robert-Jan.

Re: print subsystem

T G Manikandan — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:38:29 GMT

Just do

#/sbin/init.d/lp stop

Then change your /etc/rc.config.d/lp

file from '1' to '0'

THanks

Re: print subsystem

Rene_17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:44:20 GMT

the scheduler is not running, but the print subsystem !!!

Re: print subsystem

Mark Grant — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:49:32 GMT

The scheduler IS the print system. You stop that and nothing will print.

On the other hand, if you want the queuing to stop too, you'll have to "reject" each printer queue with the "reject" command

reject -r "A good reason for why I have done this" printer

Re: print subsystem

Rene_17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:55:15 GMT

my problem is that i want to install a new printerqueue with the lexmark software.
The queue can not be installed, because the print subsystem can??t be shutdown by the konfigurationtool !

Error: Unable to shutdown the print subsystem.
...

Re: print subsystem

Rene_17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:58:16 GMT

I shutdown the scheduler with:

lpshut and sbin/init.d/lp stop

but the errormessage don??t vanish !

Re: print subsystem

Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:04:19 GMT

I guess the software is not able to stop the scheduler, may be because there may be some jobs running. Try lpstat at the command line, this will give you the list of pending jobs. Just cancel them by giving

$ cancel job id (this u got from lpstat),

then do a
$ lpshut

and then install the same.

Re: print subsystem

Mark Grant — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:07:15 GMT

I would guess that is is trying to issue an "lpshut" as that's what most will do. However it is very difficult to guess why it is failing to achieve that.

Three things that come to mind are,

1) are you installing the software as root as only root can shut down the scheduler

2) Is the scheduler already shutdown and therefore the software fails trying to do it again

3) Is the software expecting lpshut to be in /usr/lib which for some unknown reason is where a lot of unix systems put it (you can check this with a symbolic link from /usr/sbin/lpshut to /usr/lib/lpshut

Just some thoughts!

Re: print subsystem

Rene_17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:09:08 GMT

Nothing is running, but the errormessage didn??t vanish !!!

Re: print subsystem

Umapathy S — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:12:02 GMT

Rene,
What does /var/adm/lp/log say?
-Umapathy

Re: print subsystem

Zigor Buruaga — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:17:08 GMT

Hi,

Check also "/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log".
Is it possible that the software wants to shutdown the machine, not the spooler?

Kind regards,
Zigor

Re: print subsystem

Mark Grant — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:17:36 GMT

Rene,

If the scheduler is NOT running then "lpshut" actually returns an error if you try to shut it down again so maybe your software is failing because the print system is ALREADY down.

Try starting everything up first!

Re: print subsystem

Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:19:32 GMT

Hi,

If the spooler is not running, just start it and try again.

If that also, does not work, may be you need to look in to the /var/adm/sw/* logs... Do they show any error message?

Re: print subsystem

Rene_17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:24:02 GMT

I had shutdown to init 1 and add the new queue
and then it works !!!!

Thanks for your attention