need script to restart print que from cron

[lblauen]

I have 3 or 4 print queues that like to die at night. I have to restart them every morning. I need a quick script to test lpstat | grep -v READY and list the queues that are down and issue the command enable DOCK264 or what ever the queue name is. I would like to have cron run the script every hour and reset print queues as needed. Can anyone help please.

Tnaks Lloyd.

 

[alexhu]

I use this - feel free to amend ( you probably don't need the case statement)

Alex



function queue_status {
/usr/bin/enq -e "$@" | /usr/bin/awk '
$1 ~ /:$/ { print $0; next }
{ if (substr($0,1,7) != " &quot print substr($0,1,24); }'
}; queue_status '-A' | grep @ | tr -s ' ' ' ' | cut -f1,3 -d" " | while read PQ STAT
do
if [ $STAT = "DOWN" ]
then
case $PQ in
HP5Si2N) PQ=HP5Si2NT
;;
HP5Si1N) PQ=HP5Si1NT
;;
fsadvic) PQ=fsadvice
;;
fsconsi) PQ=fsconsign
;;
fsmanif) PQ=fsmanifest
;;
fspacki) PQ=fspacking
;;
fspalle) PQ=fspallet
;;
fsmanms) PQ=fsmanmsp
;;
fmgiftw) PQ=fmgiftwar
;;
fminner) PQ=fminnerfe
;;
*)
;;
esac
echo $PQ >> /scripts/logs/pqlog
echo `date` >> /scripts/logs/pqlog
qadm -U $PQ
fi
done

 

[victorv]

hi lblauen ,
try with

integer x
x=0
enq -As | while read Line
do
x=$x+1
if [ $x -le 2 ] ; then # discards 1st 2 lines
continue
fi

Que=`echo $Line | awk '{print $1}'`
Dev=`echo $Line | awk '{print $2}'`
Sta=`echo $Line | awk '{print $3}'`

if [ $Sta != "READY" ] ; then
echo $Que $Dev $Sta $x
enq -P $Que -X
enq -P $Que -U
fi
done



I dont know if enq -X ( deletes all job ) is for you:
if not comment out it .


bye

 

[vivek1712]

hi lblauen ,

Try this :

enq -As | grep "DOWN" | cut -f 1 -d " " | while read ln
do
enable $ln
done

Best Regards,
vivek

 

[lblauen]

Thanks for all the help. I got help from the unix scripting forum and here was the script which works great.

lpstat -W | grep -v READY | awk '$NF == "DOWN" { system("enable " $1) }'


Thanks again

 

[AIXSPadmin]

OK, this is my last attempt to amend the shell coding using old methods.

1) replace [ "$var" = "$var" ] with [[ $var = $var ]]
this is a newer and more powerful method!

2) replace x=$x+1 with x+=1
this is faster and easier to read.

3) ksh93 allows the use of substrings
($varffset:length) allows you to disregard calling awk within your shell script.

Well those are a few of my pet peeves for shell scripting. And I reserve the use of awk to one-liners like the solution above! as well as sed and most of my perl are one-liners.