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01-05-2008, 11:48 AM
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 Problem with printing I have recently inherited the responsibilities of an maintaining older AIX system (4.2). Everything is running fairly smoothly except that some printers are very stubborn and their status remains in "CONNECT" forever, not allowing anything to print. See lpstat output below... I have used lprm to remove all jobs, qadm -D/U to bring bring down and up again, all to no avail. When I clear out the stuck jobs, and bring the printer back up, the status is initially "READY' until you print something, then it becomes "CONNECT" and stays there indefinitally. Any ideas how to get rid of the "CONNECT" status and get back to "READY"? Any help much appreciated! Joseph Dobbs Lifeline Home Health lpstat output... lp0 MN@2_ CONNECT 303 hello.txt root 1 1 1 QUEUED 349 /tmp/ifx60359 rus2 4 1 2      |
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01-05-2008, 11:48 AM
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| Re: Problem with printing <joseph.dobbs@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1181069820.880200.19200@h2g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com... > When I clear out the stuck jobs, and bring the printer back up, the > status is initially "READY' until you print something, then it becomes > "CONNECT" and stays there indefinitally. > > Any ideas how to get rid of the "CONNECT" status and get back to > "READY"? > Any help much appreciated! > > Joseph Dobbs > Lifeline Home Health > > lpstat output... > lp0 MN@2_ CONNECT 303 hello.txt root > 1 1 1 > QUEUED 349 /tmp/ifx60359 > rus2 4 1 2 If you just want to "clear" things and start again - you could just try: stopsrc -cs qdaemon ps -ef | grep rembak Kill any rembak processing printing to this host startsrc -s qdaemon Look at the /etc/qconfig entry for this particular queue. When your print queue is stuck in CONNECT state, can you ping the print server? Can you telnet to port 515 to see if the server's lpd daemon is running? What type of print server is on the other end of this queue? If possible, it would be better to prevent this state instead of recovering from it. Best regards, Paul |
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