tonyl@ivysoft.UUCP (Y. Tony Lin of Ivysoft) (12/04/90)
I am having problems to make the printer configuration work on Xenix 2.3.
The following describes what works and what doesn't. Please help me.
What works:
The system is SCO Xenix 386 2.3. Only one printer is available.
The printer (HP III) has been defined as lp2 and the command
date > /dev/lp2 [Enter]
can send the date information to the printer correctly. This proves
that the printer is wired with the system and the lp2 is the right
printer destination. Before making it lp2 I tried to make it lp0 and
lp1 and it didn't work. The current lp port is under IRQ5 under
address 278 using Acer 286 Courier I/O II card. This printer port
works normally when I run DOS partition (not through VPix, but
running DOS directly.)
What doesn't work:
I followed the SCO installation and maintenance manual chaper 15 to
set up this. I am at the point that the command
lpstat -r [Enter]
indicates "Scheduler is not running."
The HP printer has been defined via the lpinit command. The printer
name "printer" exists. I can try to do
enable printer [Enter]
the system will tell me "The printer "printer" was already enable."
The problem seems to be the lp scheduler is not running. So I use
the command
/usr/lib/lpsched [Enter]
to enable the scheduler as said by the manual. After the command is
typed, the command is accepted by the system, but no response
message. It just came back to the command prompt #.
When I run the "lpstat -r", the system still says "Scheduler is not
running."
Would someone help me with this, please?
--
Y. Tony Lin Phone: (901)763-2956 Fax: (901)683-8099
Ivysoft International, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee
UUCP: {fedeva,chromc,rutgers}!dynasys!ivysoft!tonylemanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele) (12/05/90)
In article <13@ivysoft.UUCP>, tonyl@ivysoft.UUCP (Y. Tony Lin of Ivysoft) writes: > > > I am having problems to make the printer configuration work on Xenix 2.3. > The following describes what works and what doesn't. Please help me. > > indicates "Scheduler is not running." > > > The problem seems to be the lp scheduler is not running. So I use > the command > /usr/lib/lpsched [Enter] > to enable the scheduler as said by the manual. After the command is > typed, the command is accepted by the system, but no response > message. It just came back to the command prompt #. > > I had a similar problem with an ATT 3b2 a few years ago. It seems that there is a lock file in /usr/spool/lp called SCHEDLOCK you need to get rid of this file before starting /usr/lib/lpsched This SHOULD work. Mark Emanuele -- Mark A. Emanuele V.P. Engineering Overleaf, Inc. 500 Route 10 Ledgewood, NJ 07852-9639 attmail!overlf!emanuele (201) 927-3785 Voice (201) 927-5781 fax emanuele@overlf.UUCP