Stopping Spooler 2

[Steve Bowman]

I need to stop and restart the lp splloer process and can not remember how I did it in the past, any help

Steve Bowman
steve@independenttech.net
Independent Technology, Inc.
CA, USA

 

[motoslide]

/usr/lib/lpshut (stops the spooler)
/usr/lib/lpsched (starts the spooler)

This is assuming you are running OpenServer. If Unixware, the commands may be different.

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi Steve,

/usr/lib/lpshut

and /usr/lib/lpsched

should do it.

 

[KenCunningham]

Oops - too slow, apologies motoslide.

 

[PHV]

And if you use remote printing:
1) Stop
kill -15 `ps -e | awk '$NF=="lpd"{print $1}'`
rm -f /usr/spool/lpd/lock /usr/spool/lpd/*/lock
2) Start
/usr/lib/lpd &

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Steve Bowman]

Both very good bits of information, just what I needed
Thanks

Steve Bowman
steve@independenttech.net
Independent Technology, Inc.
CA, USA

 

[Steve Bowman]

For the record this is OpenServer

Steve Bowman
steve@independenttech.net
Independent Technology, Inc.
CA, USA

 

[pcunix]

Yes, it is Open Server, but the same commands work on many Linuxes and a lot of other OSes..

Tony Lawrence
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