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Old 08-11-2010
Printer always disable itself
Hi,

I am using solaris 10, 1 of the printers encounter some issue and it is always disable itself and dont know why? any idea how to make it auto enable back to normal? is there any configuration or scripts?? kindly advise me. thanks.
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Old 08-11-2010
Check /var/adm/messages for any error messages with "lp" in them from the day the printer disabled itself and post them here.
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Old 08-12-2010
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Originally Posted by bluescreen
Check /var/adm/messages for any error messages with "lp" in them from the day the printer disabled itself and post them here.
hi bluescree,

i can't find any error messages in the /var/adm/messages but i find some messages from the /etc/lp/logs/lpsched, but it did not show which printer got problem. kindly see the message as below for reference:

08/11 13:03:32: printer fault. type: write root, status: c
msg: (Printer not responding;Either warming up or needs attention)

hopefully it may help. thanks. Smilie
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