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Nate Arnold
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‎02-19-2004 05:05 AM

‎02-19-2004 05:05 AM

Printing

How can I get past shutting down the print subsystem everytime I want to add a new printer?
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Geoff Wild
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‎02-19-2004 05:08 AM

‎02-19-2004 05:08 AM

Re: Printing

You shouldn't have to when adding - only deleting - if you use the command line that is....I don't know about SAM.

On the command line:

addqueue -i 9998 -q QUEUENAME -h dnsname.yourdomain.com

To delete:

lpshut
lpadmin -XQUEUENAME
lpsched -v

Rgds...Geoff
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Mark Grant
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‎02-19-2004 05:08 AM

‎02-19-2004 05:08 AM

Re: Printing

You can't.

"lpadmin" won't allow you to add a printer with the scheduler running. However, it's not down for very long and you don't lose any print jobs.
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A. Clay Stephenson
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‎02-19-2004 05:34 AM

‎02-19-2004 05:34 AM

Re: Printing

The UNIX lp system is old and single-threaded. There are only a few lpadmin options that are allowed while the scheduler is running --- and adding a new printer ain't one of them. Man lpadmin for details. The good news is that you can do an lpshut, lpadmin to add the printer, and an lpsched and no spool jobs are lost. Currently printing jobs will continue but true end of job data will be lost.
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