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Local Printing Issue in SCO Unix OS 5.0.5

SystemsAdminAS — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:03:09 GMT

Folks,

Have a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 legacy box on site that has run our legacy ERP system for about 15 years now. Primarily uses an Okidata 321 ML Turbo line printer (defined as 'printer') attached to the system's parrel port at /dev/lp0. System primarily operates as a terminal server with clients using vt220 emulators.

Printing has been working OK for the life of the machine, but it appears about a month ago that the printer suddenly stopped actually printing. However, SCOADMIN confirms the configuration is still correct...

Print commands from the ERP system (or from simply printing a file, i.e. lp somefile.txt) send documents to the print spooler OK, but nothing happens from there, and whatever is in the queue sits there. Probably worth noting that this printer has a plainly visible alarm when it has an issue, such as being out of paper, misfed, etc. and there is currently no active alarm.

Here are some command-line results that may help:

# lpstat printer
printer-##### 12345 Nov 18 15:14

# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: printer
device for printer: /dev/lp0
printer accepting requests since
printer printer waiting for auto-retry. available.
stopped with printer fault
.
.
.

So far, tried clearing out the queue, restarting the services (lpshut / lpsched), rebooting, checking connections / cables to no avail. My guess is the issue is that the server isn't 'seeing' the printer, especially as when SCO boots up when the printer is on and connected, it typically makes a few whirring and clicking noises corresponding with the boot sequence, which no longer occur. It would make sense then that spooled docs would sit there forever until they have a printer to process to.

In the above example, a job I ran from the command-line is active in the spooler. A cancel command will properly kick any spooled documents out.

Anything I'm missing? Any help would be appreciated...

Version of ScoUnix

Arun.Kakarla — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:30:39 GMT

Hi,

What is the command to check the version of the installed sco unix.

Regards
arun

fsck and single user mode

powwm — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:15:31 GMT

I am working with SCO 5.0.7 and I need to run fsck on the root file system. I understand that filesystems need to be unmounted before running fsck but I cannot unmount the root filesystem because it is always "busy." My question is can I safely run fsck on the root filesystem in single user mode without unmounting it? I need to run fsck because of improper shutdown. The system is automatically booting in single user mode, giving me an inode error, and requesting that I "unmount filesystem and run full fsck."

load sco xenix and sco unix binary ?

javad1_maroofi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:29:43 GMT

Hi

I have some sco xenix object, bin and archive files that operate in sco unix 5.0.7.
I know that sco unix kernel can support sco xenix binary. I want to know how can I link xenix and unix archives together?

SCO Xenix AR command ?

javad1_maroofi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:57:34 GMT

Hi I am looking for sco xenix ar command under sco unix. please help me !

Can I run Perkin Elmer software on SCO ?

walidfinder — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:02:50 GMT

can i run software run in SCO open desktop 2.0 in SCO open server 5 or 6
thank you for help me

SCO unix binary compatibility problem

javad1_maroofi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:43:23 GMT

Hi

I am looking for sco xenix binary compatibility utility "cvtomf",(convert omf object to COFF object)

Would you please help me ?

tnx

Mouse problem in sco 5.0.6

kaydream — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:46:19 GMT

hello i have a problem with mouse in vmware with sco 5.0.6
in graphic mode X11 my mouse move to corner after a while
do you have any idea about this problem
vmware 6.5.2
vmware 7

Remote printing configuring

haezeban — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:21:45 GMT

Hi,

We have a Unix 3.2v5.0.5.
I installed a printer via scoadmin, HP network printer manager with network peripheral name an ip-adress.

This is the configuration file :

Code:

root@sco1 # cat configuration

Banner: on:Always

Content types: simple

Device: /dev/null

Interface: /usr/spool/lp/model/HPLaserJet

Printer type: unknown

Number of banners: 0

root@sco1 #

Printing works fine from the unix via the lp-command (simple letters) But there I have always a blank page between each letter.

Also some documents are more special, on the documents the program prints first some squares and then text in it. These documents are messed up by the printer. He prints only the squares (vertical and horizontal lines) but no text.

I read already some info on AP Laurence but I do not understand very much.
I think I need to change the interface files or terminfo?? Also I tried via the command lpadmin -p pr13 -o lpi=3 this gives an error because of the printer type.

I am stuck, thanks for help.

---------- Post updated at 05:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:50 PM ----------

hi,

I think I need to change the interface file in /var/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces/model.orig/name_of_printer

But this is quite difficult:
Some where in it :
if [ "$vsi" = "def" -a "$lpi" = "def" -a "$orien
tation" != "landscape" -a "$nroff" = "" -a "$dividing" = "" ]
then
echo "\033&l70p2e7.6c70F\c"
echo "\033&a4L\c"
echo "\033&k11H\c"
length="-l70"
fi

echo "\033&l70p2e7.6c70F\c" this I don't understand
echo "\033&a4L\c" this is the left margin
echo "\033&k11H\c" this is the hsi
length="-l70" this is the number of lines on the page

tkx

i can't read hard disk scsi

walidfinder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:32:06 GMT

i was installing i my computer windows xp and sco
when i use knoppix5.0 live to read scsi partition wish sco was installing
show me message that i have not permission to acces in scsi hard drive
help me please

Help on System Freeze in SCO

rrb2009 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:33:36 GMT

Hi,

My SCO server freezes suddenly. I just want to know if there any tools / commands availble that can find which is causing the freeze?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Ravikumar R