Re: Printer Problems in AIX 4.3.3

From: Mattias Häggström Laitis Handels AB (mhm_at_laitis.se)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:02:00 GMT

im no expert but i think this
do
check name in custom folder and
chvirprt -q NAME -d QUEUE

/ M

"futsnfup" <jasenhaas@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:82862807.0310011011.2b2dfd23@posting.google.com...
> I'm having printer problems after attempting to copy a large amount of
> queue configurations from one system to another. This is what I've
> done to copy the configurations.
>
> 1. Stopped qdaemon on the target system
> 2. Copied the /var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/ddi, dev, and custom
> directories from the source system to the target. (I used tar to do
> this so ownership and permissions matched the source system)
> 3. Copied /etc/qconfig from the source to the target
> 4. Removed /etc/qconfig.bin on the target system
> 5. Restarted qdaemon on the target system
>
> All the printers are now listed on the target system with the correct
> descriptions. When I attempt to print to any of these newly copied
> printers on the target the queue immediately goes down. The only way
> I can restart it is to remove the print job first. The error message
> I'm getting says: "Backend: /usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piojetd printer001
> 9100 /var/spool/qdaemon/th9jPEa
> Backend Exit Value: EXITFATAL (0100)
> Job Submit Time: Oct 1 13:49:51 2003. Current Time: Oct 1
> 13:49:51 2003
> Use local problem reporting procedures."
>
> Did I miss a step somewhere? Anyone have an idea of what went wrong
> here? I really don't want to have to create these printers manually,
> there are too many of them and I need to do this across several
> systems. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> JH

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