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From: fsfacca@AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Printer Woes
Message-ID: <9011192204.AA22379@avelon.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Nov 90 22:04:06 GMT
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>Ever since upgrading to 3.3.1, we've been having problems with
>printing from one of our workstations.  What makes this odd is that of
>the many things changed from 3.2 to 3.3, printing wasn't supposed to
>be one of them.
>
>I quickly found out that the scheduler wasn't running.  Any attempt to
>start it failed.  Doing an lpstat gave the error message:
>
>       lpstat: can't lock acceptance status
>
>

The directory /usr/spool/lp should have 2 status files (qstatus and pstatus)
in them.  Perhaps during the installation, they got clobbered.  To recreate
these files, just do:

	/usr/lib/lpshut
	/usr/lib/lpsched

restarting the scheduler recreates the required files.  Hope this was the
problem.


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