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Mysterious Report Printing from SCO system

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MSBSI

IS-IT--Management
Jan 12, 2011
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Two of my customers occasionally report mysterious printing. In other words, a long report starts to print and no "owns up" to starting it.

Both systems are alike: SCO 5.0.7 (Fairly new), Wyse150 terminals, Okidata printers running from serial ports. We are printing directly to the printers -- we are not using the SCO printer spoolers. The application software is an AcuCobol accounting package.

Any ideas about how to prevent this mysterious printing from re-occurring?

Graham

 
The best option would be to configure the application to use the spooler and you'd have logs. But, you already know that. The other option I can think of is to check the processes running on the serial port at the time a print job is running. If the job is finished, you are probably out of luck.

You'll need to know which port runs the OKI. For example, it might by /dev/ttya03. Run this command:
# fuser -u /dev/ttya03

You could build yourself a little script to run that command and send the results to a text file, then sleep a bit, and run it again. The text file will get large, but it might be a way to catch the culprit.

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Thanks, Motoslide, I'll drive that around the block!

Graham (MSBSI)

 
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