Re: duplicate bos.printer.rte

Hi, Mark.

Did you reinitialize your smit screens? Take a look at the sm_file
script in this post.

http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/ibm-aix-l/moving-q
lconfig-to-new-system-1429315
<http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=871194>

If that doesn't do it, you might just have to use the smit screen and F6
to build a script to create those queues. Should be quick and easy.

Good luck!

Alex Paschal
Unix Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mark Schlechte
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:49 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: duplicate bos.printer.rte



Thanks for the clarification and usefull cmd Alex.

Here's what I see when creating a new hp_jetdriect print queue:

Add a Print Queue


Type or select values in entry fields.

Press Enter AFTER making all desired changes.



[Entry Fields]

Description Generic Printer

Description Generic Printer





Names of NEW print queues to add

Names of NEW print queues to add

ASCII []

GL Emulation []

PCL Emulation []

PostScript []



Printer connection characteristics

* HOSTNAME of the JetDirect Card []

* PORT [9100]


It wasn't the cosmetic aspect of it that got my attention is was the
fact that I couldn't make any

queue modifications without generating an error like :

0782-591 The value of _d attribute is not in the list generated from

the limits field

0782-112 1 Errors detected while validating printer attributes.

Use local problem reporting procedures.


I suspect it may been due to the way I earlier had copying the existing
queues from another server and may have messed something up.

My process was :

Migrating Print Queues to from another System:


NOTE: This won't work however unless the hpjetdirect printer drivers
etc. are installed

1. copy the /etc/qconfig from servera (make a copy of the
original before)


2. Copy the following files:

- cd /var/spool/lpd/pio/@local
<mailto:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local>

- rcp -rp riscxx:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/custom
<mailto:riscxx:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/custom> .

- rcp -rp riscxx:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/dev
<mailto:riscxx:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/dev> .

- rcp -rp riscxx:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/ddi
<mailto:riscxx:/var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/ddi> .


3. change the permissions on the copied files to 664

chmod 664 filename


4. redigest the queue's

enq -d


5. run the chvirprt command on each queue

chvirprt -q <queue name> -d <device name>


Note: If you have a lot of queues, the best thing is to create a


short script to do this for you.

I grab the queue name and device name by running lsallq -c


and saving it to a file.


6. cycle the printer subsystem

stopsrc -cg spooler

startsrc -g spooler


I'll do some more digging and maybe start over as this is a test server.



Mark


<AlexPaschal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 06/25/07 4:50 PM >>>


Hi, Mark.


That is perfectly normal. It just has files in two different places,
/etc/objrepos and /usr/lib/objrepos. lslpp -l \*printers\* would show
you the same thing without the context being grepped out.


labdvw1[/]# lslpp -l \*printers\*
Fileset Level State Description

------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
bos.rte.printers 5.3.0.50 COMMITTED Front End Printer
Support
printers.msg.en_US.rte 5.3.0.0 COMMITTED Printer Backend
Messages -
U.S. English
printers.rte 5.3.0.50 COMMITTED Printer Backend

Path: /etc/objrepos
bos.rte.printers 5.3.0.50 COMMITTED Front End Printer
Support
printers.rte 5.3.0.50 COMMITTED Printer Backend



I'm not sure about the duplicate entries for "Description and Name of
Print Queue to add". Maybe a screenshot?


Thanks,


A

lex Paschal




Unix Administrator




Freightliner, LLC




(503) 745-6850




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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mark Schlechte
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:19 PM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: duplicate bos.printer.rte




When I try and add another print queue via smitty I noticed it was
showing duplicate entries for stuff like 'Description and Name of Print
Queue to add'.

If I check my printers filesets I see I have a couple of duplicates.

So my question is how do I go about fixing this up. Uninstall to clean
things up and then re-install?

lslpp -l | grep -i printers
bos.rte.printers 5.2.0.96 COMMITTED Front End Printer
Support Laser Jet Printers
printers.hpJetDirect.attach
printers.msg.en_US.rte 5.2.0.0 COMMITTED Printer Backend
Messages -
printers.rte 5.2.0.95 COMMITTED Printer Backend
bos.rte.printers 5.2.0.40 COMMITTED Front End Printer
Support
printers.rte 5.2.0.95 COMMITTED Printer Backend







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