UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Details, Details would be nice. The more we know the more we can help.

sysadmsh, is a SCO command I believe. If Perderabo is right in assuming you are using HP UX then that command will most likely not work, but I'm not positive.

Tell us what platform you are running on.

It can't be HP-UX. The lp subsystem seems too different and HP-UX has no sysadmsh.

I don't think that a getty should be running on a printer port. Not sure if this will work, but ...

Find the line in /etc/inittab for the getty. Change "respawn" to "off". Then try:
telinit q
if there is no telinit, just try:
init q
This should get rid of that getty you were trying to kill.

On my system, the model/interface script is where the baud rate gets set. I have no idea how your system works. But bear in mind, if you change baud rate on the computer you must change it on the printer too. This could be switches or menu setting...each printer is different.

HN19,

Please login to your system and type this command:


uname -a


and cut and paste the results into your next post.

Thanks, Neo

NEO,

Here it is: SCO_SV asia2002 3.2 5.0.6 i386.

Well you needed details... I am running SCO unix (you can tell now), I have about 5 computers in a network. I use netterm, that simulates unix terminals.
Some printers are connected directly to the pc, I use a program called omniprint so they can be able to print from unix to win.
Some other are connected to a jack that leads to the unix network. That's the one I am having problems with. The printers are okidata.

I have one that works pretty good (connected to another jack) that has a speed of 9600 baud. The one printing garbled has a speed of 38400 baud.

Think this might help?

That is a very good start. The port that is working at 9600 baud....does it have a getty running? Also, are any processes running that reference it?

This command:
ps -ef | grep ttys12

should answer that second question.

Perderabo,

The port working doesn't have a getty running nor a process running that references it.

The one that doesn't work, does have a getty running and the following appears when I type the command that you gave me:

root 1078 1 0 09:17:59 ttys12 00:00:00 /etc/getty ttys12 o

A few posts back in this thread I made a suggestion to get rid of the getty. How did that go? Did you try it? Or did something do wrong? If so, what?