PJS@NAIF.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) (05/21/88)
>unmvax!charon!sdowdy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU says: >Does anyone know of a way to *really* delete a print queue on a spooled >device? >Up to this point the only way i can get the queue deleted is by: > 1) $ stop <queue> > 2) pid = f$getdvi(<queue_device>,"PID") ! get symbiont PID > 3) Stop/Id='pid' ! Kill the symbiont > 4) Delete/Queue <queue> >i need to delete the queue to modify parameters on the spooled device via >SET TERM, or just to move the print queue to another device (having a >DZ blowup recently, and moving the line...) Well, first of all, STOP/QUEUE <queue> only "pauses" a queue. If you really want to clobber it, use STOP/QUEUE/RESET (the purpose of pausing a queue is to change ribbons, etc). Then you can delete the queue, which usually kills the symbiont anyway, although hopefully that won't happen if it's multiply threaded. The method you came up wilh above is novel, but perhaps with undesirable side-effects. However, I think there is a way to move all the jobs to a new queue using the ASSIGN/QUEUE command. Can't say for sure; haven't tried it. Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)
tpmsph@ecsvax.UUCP (Thomas P. Morris) (05/27/88)
> >unmvax!charon!sdowdy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU says: > > >Does anyone know of a way to *really* delete a print queue on a spooled > >device? > > >i need to delete the queue to modify parameters on the spooled device via > >SET TERM, or just to move the print queue to another device (having a > >DZ blowup recently, and moving the line...) Huh? You shouldn't need to delete a queue to change the parameters on the spooled device! If you do a STOP/QUEU/NEXT or STOP/QUEUE/RESET and then do a SET DEV/NOSPOOL <dev>, then change the params you need to change (remembering you need PHY_IO to make them /PERM), then you just do a SET DEV/SPOOL=(x,y) <dev>, and then START/QUEU. Now, if you need to move the print queue to another device, you should be able to do a START/QUEUE/ON=devname (or maybe that's an INIT/QUEUE/DEV/ON=). I've done this more times than I care to recall, but I don't think I've ever had to delete the queue! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Morris BITNET: TOM@UNCSPHVX UNC School of Public Health UUCP : ...!mcnc!ecsvax!tpmsph ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Morris BITNET: TOM@UNCSPHVX UNC School of Public Health UUCP : ...!mcnc!ecsvax!tpmsph -----------------------------------------------------------------------------