I'm at following old machine:
We are facing some problems with print queues, whenever a print queue gets stuck we cannot cancel it, we don't have any other option except restarting the machine, we have following queues:
Suppose qlp3 goes to WAIT or BUSY state, we cannot cancel it using cancel qlp3 command.
Sometimes errpt displays Asynchronous Adapter failed message, in that case we must restart machine as well, is there any way to solve these problems without restarting the machine?
One last question, we have to explicitly run command every time system restarts:
I was looking for /etc/rc.d directory where I can create some startup script file and run this command automatically but I don't find any rc.d directory, how can I put above command in my system's startup?
Did you try the smit printing spool commands or the enq -x (man enq) on command line for example to cancel the jobs?
You can also try to refresh the qdaemon and maybe then try to cancel if still necessary.
For starting the qdaemon, make an appropriate entry into /etc/rc.tcpip.
Did you try the smit printing spool commands or the enq -x (man enq) on command line for example to cancel the jobs?
You can also try to refresh the qdaemon and maybe then try to cancel if still necessary.
For starting the qdaemon, make an appropriate entry into /etc/rc.tcpip.
Thanks for your reply. I'll check the manual for enq command, but can you please tell me how to refresh qdaemon? Any idea about asynchronous adapter failing? how to resolve that issue without restarting the server?
I'll check /etc/rc.tcpip file as well for starting qdaemon automatically. Thanks.
You might want to explore the "qadm" command (man qadm). The spooled printer files reside in "/var/spool/lpd/*" (have a look there, its pretty intuitive) and /var/spool/qdaemon respectively.
You will find your queue definitions (as well as the queue device definitions) in the file "/etc/qconfig".
Thanks a lot for your replies. I'll check all those options and report back.
When I issue command like lpstat or enq -A, I have to press ctrl+Z to come out of this which will generate this message
Is it okay or I have to adopt some other way to come out of lpstat?
I doubt that this is normal behaviour. If it works and after that everything is continuing as normal, you maybe just get used to it.
Do you have the latest ML (Maintenance Level) installed for your OS version?
Is there anything about the printing queue etc. in the errpt?
Maybe it is an option to write down the setting for the old queues and to drop them out of the system, and reconfigure them or something like that. Not sure if you even can reinstall the packages.
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