lpsched is not running

[George Liu_4]

This is an old HPUX 10.20 system. Printing service suddenly stopped working. Here is the detail:

lpstat -t reports "scheduler is not running";
lpsched reports "lpsched: scheduler was already active";
run lpstat -t again, still get "scheduler is not running"
No FIFO, SCHEDLOCK file/pipes under /var/spool/lp

Tested several times with lpshut; lpsched; disable/ebnable a printer; remove/add a printer, and rebooted the system, and the result is same

Any

[IT_2007 · Accepted solution]

check binary file size for lpsched.

-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 53248 Jan 11 2005 /usr/sbin/lpsched

might be empty in your case.

[spex]

Hi George,

Have a look at this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1031952

PCS