lpsched not running

[MarkSyder]

Hi everybody.

I've been installing kernel patches on an HP-UX 11.0 server.

A check of Big Brother shows that the lpsched process is not starting automatically. I've looked in /etc/rc.log and it is starting to run the process but then comes up with the message "/sbin/rc2.d/S720lp start" SKIPPED, without any explanation as to why it's skipped.
Running the command manually works.

I have got a good ignite backup, but I've installed so many patches I'd rather not resort to that. Any ideas?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Mark Grant]

Mark,

I'm nowhere near an hpux box at the moment but this would suggest to me that there is an /etc/rc.config.d/lpsched or something file that is saying "don't start the scheduler".

[Michael Tully]

I'm not near a system right now, but is there a /etc/rc.config file that needs to be changed so that the daemon starts automatically?

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Mark,

How is your /etc/rc.config.d/lp set up?

# @(#) $Revision: 72.3 $
# LP spooler configuration
#
# LP: Set to 1 to start LP spooler
#
LP=1


Gideon

[Ravi_8 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have you configured printer services in your machine?

[MarkSyder]

Hi everybody and thanks for the remarkably prompt answers.

Yes, that's exactly what the file looks like. I've compared it with the same file on a working server as well - it's exactly the same.

Mark

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Mark,

The /etc/rc.config/* files are all sourced. could it be that there is an other file in there that sets the LP var to 0 .

Gideon

[Mark Grant]

Then compare

/sbin/rc2.d/S720lp

With a working one, perhaps it's looking at the wrong config file.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Mark,

In /etc/services make sure the line is uncommented:

printer 515/tcp spooler #remote print spooling

In /etc/inetd.conf make sure the line is uncommented:

printer stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/rlpdaemon rlpdaemon -i

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[Dietmar Konermann]

Mark,

if you look at /sbin/init.d/lp, then you see that lpsched is only started "if [ "$LP" -eq 1 -a -s /var/spool/lp/pstatus ]".

So I would guess that /var/spool/lp/pstatus is either not existing or 0 bytes in size. This means that lpsched is only started if there is at least one printer configured.

So, maybe there's no printer configured on this system? :-)

Best regards...
Dietmar.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Pls chk if SCEDLOCK or FIFO files are into /var/spoo/lp. In this case you could have an inconsistence in the /var/spool/lp/request/ tree structure, where eah printer defined must have your corresponding directory.

If you have a previous spool copy from SAM just restore it. A good preventive task is make periodically in SAM/Printers and Ploters/LP Spooler/Save-RestoreSpooler Configuration/Action/Save Spooler Configuration

When you need restore this configuration just select Restore Spooler Configuration in same path showed above.

Rgds.

[MarkSyder]

Hi everybody.

Full marks to Ravi.

How embarrassing - this is a test server that I'm preparing for live. It's probably never had lpsched running and we've only just noticed.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Mark