Hey all,
Apologies, I am a NT nerd, so if I get the wording wrong try not to laugh too hard.
I have a ERP packaging which prints to a remote printers on a Win2K Ptr Server (which is running LPD 515).
Everything will work dandy for a while, but at least once a day (normally over night), the process stops working with the Remote Printer shown as "BUSY" in SAM.
If this goes long enough it will even disable the Ptr entirely.
I can normally kick the thing in the guts by either enabling the printer, restarting the spooler, or a combination. Unfortunately we print across countries, so I am getting the wake up call at 4am.
[I have to print to the NT spool as it is actually form software which manipulates the stream]
I have cron'ed spooler restarts, enables etc, but your guarenteed the problem occurs after they have run, and you cant run them every 5 min!
I have heard in other Unix flavours there is a recovery process: lpadmin -p PRINTER -F beginning (Ref: but my HPUX 11 doesnt have a clue about -F.
I reckon that by default HPUX is doing "-F wait" requiring sysadmin intervention.
Whats the question you are all asking??
Anyone know if there is a recovery process like above for UX? a timeout till retry on the BUSY? anything that will self repair the process?
If there isnt - is there alternative print/spool management software for HPUX??
Apologies, I am a NT nerd, so if I get the wording wrong try not to laugh too hard.
I have a ERP packaging which prints to a remote printers on a Win2K Ptr Server (which is running LPD 515).
Everything will work dandy for a while, but at least once a day (normally over night), the process stops working with the Remote Printer shown as "BUSY" in SAM.
If this goes long enough it will even disable the Ptr entirely.
I can normally kick the thing in the guts by either enabling the printer, restarting the spooler, or a combination. Unfortunately we print across countries, so I am getting the wake up call at 4am.
[I have to print to the NT spool as it is actually form software which manipulates the stream]
I have cron'ed spooler restarts, enables etc, but your guarenteed the problem occurs after they have run, and you cant run them every 5 min!
I have heard in other Unix flavours there is a recovery process: lpadmin -p PRINTER -F beginning (Ref: but my HPUX 11 doesnt have a clue about -F.
I reckon that by default HPUX is doing "-F wait" requiring sysadmin intervention.
Whats the question you are all asking??
Anyone know if there is a recovery process like above for UX? a timeout till retry on the BUSY? anything that will self repair the process?
If there isnt - is there alternative print/spool management software for HPUX??
