Print spooler trouble shooting

[Guest_imported]

I have a SCO 5.0 Unix box that I just took over for my company. All of a sudden, all printing has stopped. I can reboot the server and then it will print for a few min, then the que gets backed up again and printing stops. I am no that savy in Unix, so and troubleshooting tips and possibley a fix for this issue will be greatly appreciated!

Ryan

 

[itcamefrommars]

there is a forum here for SCO unix specifically....
you'll probably want to post there on SCO stuff to get a specific response.
anyway.... are the printers all local?
run /usr/lib/lpsched if they are and see if that brings them all back up... if so lpsched is shuting down for some reason...
if that bring only some up... then perhaps some of the printers are remote.

maybe your spooling directory is running out of space.

df -v will show filesystem usage...

try out /usr/lib/lpsched and see if that brings it up... and if so, for how long does it stay up?