View online or download ricoh infoprint manager for aix manual. I know how to add a print queue but i dont find any options in smitty to reset it. Aix print queues constantly going down solutions experts. For local print jobs, the printer must be physically attached to your system or, in the case of a network printer, attached and configured on the network. Im having problems with queue daemon after removeing a queue. Before you can print using the lp spooler, one or more printers must be configured and the scheduler started. To add a printer to the spooler, see adding a local printer to the lp spooler, adding a remote printer to the lp spooler or adding a. We have 6 print servers, each with about 1215 printers. Converting aix print queues to linux posted on february 26, 2010 by judson bishop i spent the last week working on a project to convert all of the forms printing at the circus from an aix server to a linux server. Find answers to aix print queues constantly going down from the expert community at experts. In order to get this information to a file, i need the file to appear as a print queue. General problem solving steps when print jobs hang in aix. Apr 07, 2012 print jobs stay in spooler until restart.
The queue daemon or qdaemon process tracks print job requests and the printers available to handle these requests. For remote print jobs, your system must be configured to communicate with the remote print server. How to cancel or delete a stuck print job in windows. In my configuration, if a user turns off their hp laser jet for any length of time, my rs6000 daemon will sense a problem with the printer and stop the queue causing a restart. You can use the qcan command to cancel a print job. How can i start and stop printer queues for printer called hpljf2. You can start and stop a print queue if you have root authority. I would like to set up a printer device queue in aix 4.
When i go to delete the document on the print queue, it gets stuck on deleting. I can print one document and then in hangs in the queue stuck on deleting. Once you then enable the queue, any other jobs in queue will process successfully. A queue is a location to which you direct a print job. Both the enq command and the qdaemon command read the etcqconfig file when they start.
To change an individual users default queue use export lpdest queue in the users. Reactivating the queue daemon ibm knowledge center. Here are a few options that you can use when executing mkque. If i go stop and start the spooler, it clears all documents in the queue.
Restarting cups will restart existing print queues. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. Creating an aix print queue using smit zebra technologies. Go to show status of the print server subsystem and check if the print server is running. If the printer responds to pings, but immediately goes down after attempting to enable the printer, try to cancel all jobs on the print queue. We then resubmit the print job that caused the hang. I am trying to redirect reports from a software program that are meant to be printed. What works in our systems is to disable the queue, make a copy of the print job, then cancel the queued job. To administer print jobs, first log into the server as root before running any of the following commands. No much parameters we can pass in except for the printer print queue name and file to print. The queue daemon or qdaemon process tracks print job requests and the. At the first system boot, the scheduler is not started if no printers are configured. It gets the data by way of a remote print queue on the aix box. Starting a printer queue is almost the same as stopping it.
These options have absolutely no effect on postscript, pdf, hpgl2, or image files. Ads are annoying but they help keep this website running. Applies to smit in aix using the command smitty print. The display generated by the lpstat command contains two entries for remote queues. The command chque, as given in the question, is used to manage attributes of the queue. I have added a nt shared printer which is on windows 2003, i have connected the aix 7 print queue to the windows 2003 shared hp. How to monitor and maintain printing via unix basis corner. Printing pdf from aix 7 solutions experts exchange. I need to create a print queue in aix to be able to print directly to pdf or a network based printer from a informix based application generofourj. A printer is configured by using the smit makprt command a queue alias virtual printer is a set of attributes that define a specific software view of a real printer. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators september 2002 international technical support organization sg24658400. For example, if a user submits a pdf file to be printed, does a cached copy of that pdf file live somewhere on the server in a temporary directory, at least.
If possible, let all current print jobs finish printing. Were trying to move a program from a legacy windows 2003 print server over to a windows 2008 r2 one. Aix print commandsplease read the article aix print commands more on unixmantra. Every now and then a document gets sent to the printer that causes a log jam. If the printer still goes down, remove and recreate the aix print queue. I am trying to print pdf files from an aix 7 server. End user sends a request to print a file using any of the print commands lp,lpr,qprt,enq to the print queue. Assign values to the attributes explained earlier in this article. Creating a print queue in aix using the command line is easy. Documents keep getting stuck in queue on print server.
I have added a nt shared printer which is on windows 2003, i have connected the aix 7 print queue to the windows 2003 shared hp printer fine, but it only prints gibberish. The second entry contains the clients local queue name followed by the remote queue name. When you turn your system on, the startsrc command starts qdaemon. How to restart print spoolclear print queue of remote computers via the command line 8 posts. If you normally use a particular printer, you can tell cups to use it by default using the. Aix printing always prints additional header page aix forum. To configure a local printer, a print and queue device need to be created a print device is needed to connect the print driver to the physical port the printer is attached to. Printing for fun and profit under aix 5l march 2001 sg24601800 international technical support organization. Clearing a print queue backlog ibm knowledge center. Clear and restart the print spooler with a batch file. The qdaemon maintains queues of outstanding requests and, as devices become available, sends them to the proper device at the proper time.
I can free up the queue most of the time by stopping the queue and canceling the first job and restarting the queue. Need to do a restart does restarting a print server clear the print queue got loads of jobs waiting in a papercut virtual print queue. The first entry contains the clients local queue and local device name and its status information. I am running windows 7 home premium and have installed a lexmark x5150 allinone printer following the guidelines on lexmarks website. Now for some reason, when we send the job to the 2003 box, the job comes through as raw, as it should.
Yes, restarting cups will also reset local printing queues. Try usrliblpshut to stop the print service, and then usrliblpsched to restart it, rather than rebooting the system, after canceling the job that still shows as on the. I want a way to send all the current and future print jobs of a getting fixed printer to another print queue. Does restarting a print server clear the print queue. The problem is, that periodically, the aix queues freeze up in that when you do an lpstat on them they say running and have the first job listed at 100% and then have a bunch of prints queued up behind them. How to write a batch script on windows if clearing your print queue by restarting the print spooler service is something you think youll be doing more than onceor youd just rather not go through the trouble of using the services appyou can also create a simple batch file to do the job. How to restart print spoolclear print queue of remote. Printing for fun and profit under aix 5l ibm redbooks. It is hard to keep the site running and producing new content when so continue reading linux. Hi, could someone give me step by step instructions on how to reset a print queue in aix 5. Init script to automatically start websphere mq on aix. The program calls a list of defined printer queues to choose from for the output.
Aix print queues have virtual printers and print devices associated with each queue. Hi all, i have been asked for a script that at login it prompts for the print queue to restart, restarts it, waits 30 seconds, does an lpstat on it and then log script for print queue start ibm. To perform these tasks, you must have root authority. I have about 30 printers print queues defined and this happens a couple of times a. Print jobs getting stuck on the queue unix and linux forums. To update you, today we set the st and sh virtual settings to nothing, and guess what, the cover page stops coming out. After you copy unixlinux filters, you can configure the print queue. The program takes output sent from an aix server and then processes it. How to add an aix print queue to point to a remote print server.
Hi all, i have been asked for a script that at login it prompts for the print queue to restart, restarts it, waits 30 seconds, does an lpstat on it and then logs the user off. The o jobsheetsstart,end option sets the banner pages to use for a job. At aix 3 use vi and move the queue and queue device stanzas in etcqconfig. Useful when a printer queue does not want to restart despite all your best efforts. Converting aix print queues to linux chainringcircus. Create pdf printer queu i need to create a print queue in aix to be able to print directly to pdf or a network based printer from a informix based application generofourj. Windows server 2012 thread, does restarting a print server clear the print queue in technical. Understanding aix print queues three parts to an aix queue port on the system parallel port on risc box serial connection on concentrator network connection physical.