process basicdsd

[Paul Thomson_2]

There is a process on one of our servers
D370 HP9000 which is basicdsd.
This runs at infrequent times and I have checked cron and cannot find a cron job which kicks it off. I believe the process is related to patch PHCO_15148. swlist shows this as
PHCO_15148 B.10.00.00.AA HPDPS Year 2000 Safe Cumulative Patch
Can any one help with this as this process spins and then eventually makes a core dump in the root directory filling in to 100%. I have to then delete it in order for my users to access system.

[Kodjo Agbenu · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Normally, this forum is reserved for Linux purposes.

The HPDPS is a distributed print system on HP-UX. You may not need this unless you have a very complex architecture, with several hundreds of printers connected to several hundreds of servers :-)

To make sure HPDPS daemons are not started at system bootup, edit /etc/rc.config.d/pd and make sure that the following variables are zero or empty :

PD_CLIENT=0
PD_OTHER_CLIENTS=""
PD_SPOOLERS=""
PD_SUPERVISORS=""

To stop the daemons : /sbin/init.d/pd stop.

Good luck.

Kodjo