topic Re: Printer disabled after reboot in Operating System - HP-UX

Printer disabled after reboot

kenny chia — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:17:16 GMT

Hi
I have a printer that is disabled after rebooting. How do I set it to be enabled after rebooting? I am using LP spooler.
Sorry if I'm not clear as I'm not firmiliar with printing under HP-UX

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Naveej.K.A — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:19:32 GMT

hi,

lpsched to start the scheduler
lpstat to get the status of the scheduler and printers
lpshut to shut the scheduler

enable prinername to enable the printer
disable to disable it.

IS the printer switched on or acessible before the printing scheduler is started???

with best wishes
Naveej

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Jose Mosquera — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:20:32 GMT

Hi,

First chk if your spooling are ready to work:
#lpsched (enable spooling)

Aftter this enable the printer:
#enable

Rgds.

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:33:07 GMT

Hi Kenny,

Could you check the permissions of next files ?

/etc/hosts
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf

They should be 555.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Manish Srivastava — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:45:10 GMT

Hi,

The enable command is ofcourse present to enable the printer but if the printer is disabled aotomatically then probably the device associated with it is given as a login terminal.

What I meanis while creating the printer lpadmin -l option must have been used.

Hope this helps

manish

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

kenny chia — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:06:50 GMT

Hi Robert,
I have set /etc/hosts to 555. I will try during the next reboot

Hi Manish
What is a login terminal for printers?

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Jose Mosquera — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:24:04 GMT

Hi,

Is your device a LAN printer? Try to ensure that this name device are reachable from your host (i.e: ping )

I think that Robert-Jan's suggestion aim to this point.

Rgds.

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

kenny chia — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:27:07 GMT

Yup.. reachable via ping

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Manish Srivastava — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:53:46 GMT

Hi,

What I mean is that the device to which the printer prints the job is a login terminal. Just have a look at man lpadmin -l option.

Do an lpstat -p and check whether it is a login terminal.
Such a printer can be created as:

lpadmin -pprinter -v/dev/null -mdumb -l

manish

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

kenny chia — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:27:54 GMT

Hi
Here is the output
PCPRS is the printer that I will like to be enabled after every reboot

# lpstat -p PCPRS
printer lj4050 is idle. enabled since Jul 20 16:42
fence priority : 0
printer lp1 is idle. enabled since Nov 17 11:08
fence priority : 0
printer PCPRS is idle. enabled since Jun 22 16:23
fence priority : 0

printer queue for PCPRS
-- Idle
no entries

hnssas3: PCPRS: ready and waiting
no entries

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Bill Hassell — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:39:49 GMT

Is lpsched running after you reboot? This daemon must be enabled in the /etc/rc.config.d/lp file. The variable LP must be set to 1 (LP=1) in order to start the spooler on a reboot. Since this is the default for a standard install of HP-UX, someone may have turned off the spooler.

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

kenny chia — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:30:46 GMT

Hi Bill
Yes, it is LP=1

Re: Printer disabled after reboot

Pnaidu — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:42:40 GMT

I faced the same problem some time back, check for the lpstat -t it'll show you the detailed information about the printer status, still if the printer is accepting the request and the printer is enabled.
Try removing the LPSHEDLOCK file and restart the lp schedular "lpsched" the LPSCHEDLOCK will again created after lpsched.
Best Of Luck !
Regards,
naids