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From: emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to set up printer on SCO Xenix 386?
Summary: SCHEDLOCK
Keywords: printer, SCO, lpinit
Message-ID: <1840@overlf.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 03:54:43 GMT
References: <13@ivysoft.UUCP>
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In article <13@ivysoft.UUCP>, tonyl@ivysoft.UUCP (Y. Tony Lin of Ivysoft) writes:
> 
> 
> I am having problems to make the printer configuration work on Xenix 2.3.
> The following describes what works and what doesn't.  Please help me. 
> 
>       indicates "Scheduler is not running." 
> 
> 
>       The problem seems to be the lp scheduler is not running.  So I use 
>       the command 
>           /usr/lib/lpsched [Enter]
>       to enable the scheduler as said by the manual.  After the command is
>       typed, the command is accepted by the system, but no response 
>       message.  It just came back to the command prompt #. 
> 
> 

I had a similar problem with an ATT 3b2 a few years ago.


It seems that there is a lock file in /usr/spool/lp called SCHEDLOCK


you need to get rid of this file before starting /usr/lib/lpsched


This SHOULD work.









Mark Emanuele


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