hppi process hanging around

[Chrisl_2]

I mistakenly posted this in "general".

Hi all.

rclass - hpux 11.11

I was using jetdirect yesterday to configure a new printer, today I notice the process listed below hanging around. I am new the system and the position and I want to make sure that I don't kill printing services somehow that I don't know about! Is it safe to kill this process? (top and lsof of the pid listed below) TIA

top
TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
? 20023 root 158 20 232K 232K sleep 23:22 1.63 1.63 ksh

lsof -p 20023

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
hppi 20023 root cwd DIR 64,0x4 2048 2 /tmp
hppi 20023 root txt REG 64,0x7 159744 372 /usr (/dev/vg00/lvol7)
hppi 20023 root mem REG 64,0x7 745472 13458 /usr/lib/libnsl.1
hppi 20023 root mem REG 64,0x7 135168 47 /usr/lib/libxti.2
hppi 20023 root mem REG 64,0x7 24576 108 /usr/lib/libdld.2
hppi 20023 root mem REG 64,0x7 1814528 13 /usr/lib/libc.2
hppi 20023 root mem REG 64,0x7 155648 8672 /usr/lib/dld.sl
hppi 20023 root 0u STR 157,0x1 0t104213 772 ldterm->ptem->pts
hppi 20023 root 1u STR 157,0x1 0t104213 772 ldterm->ptem->pts
hppi 20023 root 2u CHR 207,0 0t0 78 /dev/tty
hppi 20023 root 4r REG 64,0x3 5995 2212 / (/dev/vg00/lvol3)
hppi 20023 root 5u REG 64,0x8 205808 15204 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 6r REG 64,0x3 5995 2212 / (/dev/vg00/lvol3)
hppi 20023 root 7u REG 64,0x8 205808 15204 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 8u REG 64,0x8 0 297 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 9r CHR 207,0 0t0 78 /dev/tty
hppi 20023 root 11u REG 64,0x8 19187 2712 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 12r REG 64,0x8 21 14831 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 14u STR 157,0x1 0t104213 772 ldterm->ptem->pts
hppi 20023 root 16r CHR 207,0 0t0 78 /dev/tty
hppi 20023 root 18u REG 64,0x8 33317 13860 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 20u CHR 207,0 0t0 78 /dev/tty
hppi 20023 root 21u REG 64,0x8 21 356 /var (/dev/vg00/lvol8)
hppi 20023 root 1022r REG 64,0x6 9733 13459 /opt (/dev/vg00/lvol6)
of -p 20023

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Yes, it is perfectly safe to kill the hppi process. This will have no effect upon lpsched.

[Chrisl_2]

Thanks sir!

[Chrisl_2]

It's ok to kill a leftover hppi process.