HPUX printer save and restore

[Andreas Barth_1]

Hi,

we changed from Risc to Itanium Server. We have 300 printer at the HP-Unix B.11 system, so i won`t create them new :-). We have done a save of the remote-printer from the old system and restored them over "sam" to the new one. Everything seemed to be fine, but if i try to print with the lp-command, the print-request don´t came out. If i create the printer new it works without problems.

I hope someone can help me.

Thank yo

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Import the old printer

Make the same printer on a different name


compare all the printer specific files for

size permissions location and number

find /var/spool/lp -name printername -follow|xargs ll -d

Do that for both old and new printer

I suspect file permissions as most likely


Steve Steel

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Did you transfer the print queues with transferqueue ???

transferqueue allows users to transfer all Unix JetAdmin created queues from one Unix host to another.

See man transferqueue

Regards
Rainer

[Andreas Barth_1]

Hi,

it was a good idear to compare both printer config. There was really a different. At the old system we put into a master printer a script, because it was not possible to print more than 1 copy.
I took now this script out of the printer config, but now we have the same problem, like at the old system, printing is ok, but without copies. Funny situation :-)
See the print-config attached with the additional scripts, sign with big red letters.

Thank you for your help

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Suspect that in the new system the parameters have changed and you get copies = 0

If you want this option do a test and

echo $* > /tmp/test
echo $1":"$2":"$3:"$4 >> /tmp/test

And then look where your copies came out

Will probably fix it

If copies is now parameter 3 for instance


Steve Steel

[Andreas Barth_1]

Hi Steve,

excellent idear, to check the variables. I have done it, but the variable for the copies does not exist. We print out of SAP 4.6, and with the old System (N-Class) the variable for the copies was there.

Now, if i print from SAP to Unix (Itanium) the lpstat-command gives the information, of the copies :

"Deudi-Itanium-deuds:/var/spool/lp/interface#lpstat -oIVSB
IVSB-12 deuadm priority 0 Jul 30 18:17
000pHCwT.DEU 3 copies 2470 bytes



but only 1 copy came out.

I am frustrated :-)

kind regards

Andy