Problems with line printer on a unixpc

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <626 at rphroy.UUCP> tkacik at rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes:
|>I just reconnected my printer to my unixpc after about a year of
|>non-use.
|>
|>When I tried to print sonething, nothing came out (no suprise there :-)).
|>But I was never able to get anything to work.
|>
|>lpstat -r said that the scheduler is not running.
|>
|>Invoking lpsched did not seem to help.
|>Neither did enable or accept.
|>I tried to reset the printer form the UA, but that did not help.
|>The /etc/rc file seems to start the lp system, but rebooting did not help.
|>
|>Can anyone tell me what I am missing?  (Probably something simple.)
|>

Probably just a stay lock file that is telling /usr/lib/lpsched not to
start the scheduler.  You might want to check the file:

$ ls -l /usr/spool/lp/SCHEDLOCK
-r--r--r--  1 lp      other         4 Jun 26 13:01 SCHEDLOCK 

If it is there and the scheduler is not running, you can remove it.

You might want to check to make sure there is a line in /etc/.cleanup
that reads:

rm -f /usr/spool/lp/SCHEDLOCK

Good luck,
Lenny
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