lpsched not working

[Jody Bennett]

When I type lpstat -r I get a response that the scheduler is not running. If I try to start it I get a response that the scheduler is already running. I do not see the lpsched process running when I do a ps. Any ideas????

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

Could be the lock file is left over. Delete it via the following-

cd /usr/spool/lp
rm SCHEDLOCK

Good Luck

-- Rod Hills

[A. Clay Stephenson]

First do an lpshut. Next do a ps -ef and look for any other lpsched processes and kill them.
Next, cd to /var/spool/lp and look for the file SCHEDLOCK and *FIFO*; remove them. Lpsched and you should be good to go.

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

lpshut and then remove the SCHEDLOCK and FIFO files from /var/spool/lp
and then restart scheduler with lpsched.

Piyush

[Jody Bennett]

Thanks... That fixed my problem.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Jody


cd /usr/spool/lp
rm FIFO
rm SCHEDLOCK
rm CLD_FIFO


and then do lpsched


Manoj Srivastava

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi,

delete /var/spool/lp/SHEDLOCK.

then observe user lp in /etc/passwd it should be some thing like this.

lp:*:9:7::/var/spool/lp:/sbin/sh

regds