bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) (08/16/88)
> next problem: using the hp-ux 5.1 manuals via telephone, i've tried > phonal consultation to get his lp spooler running. we got as far as > getting the lpadmin(1m) command accepted and the correct interface > installed for the thimkjet. enable(1) aborted, complaining about a > non-existent device: lp. Roger Pollard mentioned that it is indeed possible to get the lp system running if you have all the directories in the right places. (Both he and I didn't think it was worth all the trouble for such a small machine, though. But then again your buddy is probably using his machine differently than us.) Is his floppy named "usr" so that he has all the right paths, as in "/usr/lib/lpsched" and all that? `Enable' is probably aborting because a directory isn't there. The "non-existent printer" diagnostic can happen because the directory /usr/spool/lp/member isn't there, or if it's not readable or writable. It also gets printed if /usr/spool/lp isn't there, but that's not likely to be missing if you're trying to make it work. Also, check the permissions when setting up the lp system---if you created everything as root, make sure the "lp" user can write to the directories and files. -- bd P.S. I should mention that it was pretty easy to work around the awk bug by simply changing the MAX++ tokens to explicit numbers, then setting MAX to a number as the last action in the BEGIN: BEGIN { person[0] = "Bob Desinger" person[1] = "Someone Else" person[2] = "Third Guy" MAX = 3 # number of people to schedule }
jeffh@hpubvwa.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) (08/16/88)
I used an IPC at home for about 2 years. It's a GREAT little HP-UX box. ( or should I say it WAS a great little HP-UX box ) The only problem with the IPC was marketing and updates. For some reason the marketing yoyo's thought the IPC was a replacement for the 85- it wasn't; it never will be, and it died because of it. The IPC was way ahead of it's time... It's a shame HP marketing and politics killed the product! The IPC (with the program development rom) did all I wanted, not fast; but, it did it. I will make one BOLD statement, " the IPC is a hunk of junk without the Program Development Rom"... -- Jeff (Spectra Software) Harrell