LPSTAT Hanging System

[r Collatos]

On My HP-UX 11.0 system, when I run any lpstat command my systems hangs. It takes a couple of minutes to get the prompt back and takes a while for the printer to start printing. I have done lpshut and lpsched and the printers seem to work, but when I use the lpstat command there is no prompt. If I run a lpstat -t it hags at the end of th elist and I need to do a CTRL-C to get the prompt back. Any suggestions.

TIA

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

this delay could happen if you have remote printer which are not online.
By doing lpstat -t all remote printers would be queried by /usr/sbin/rlpstat which has a long timeout (approx. 30 seconds). If you have a couple of remote printers not online lpstat can be hanging long time.
The rlpstat command is stored in files that have the name of the printer queue in the directory /etc/lp/sinterface.
Looks like:
# /* @(#) $Revision: 72.2 $ */
# This model is for remote status operation.

/usr/sbin/rlpstat $*

Put you a C program (my_rlpstat.c) at attachment which terminates rlpstat after 1 sec.
Compile:
cc my_rlpstat.c -o /usr/local/bin/my_rlpstat
The change within your /etc/lp/sinterface files the line
/usr/sbin/rlpstat $*
to
/usr/local/bin/my_rlpstat $*

Hope this helps.

[Lothar Krueler]

This is a known problem. Take a look at
"http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xa883c3d7fb78d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html"
May be that helps.
Lothar

[John Palmer]

The gist of that previous thread is to use the -i flag to lpstat to stop it reporting remote status. Are you interested in what's in the queue on the rmote server anyway?

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Use cancel -dlp(printername) -u(username), this will cancel the print job from the remote system that is causing the lpstat hang.