Summary: How to recover /var/spool/lp (Solaris 10)

From: Thomas Rudolph (rudt@teleconnect.de)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 07:21:26 EST


Hello,

many thanks for all hints. With original SUN software (new install of
SUNWpsr, recommended patch 120467-02 failed to intall) I was not able
to fix it, /var/spool/lp always vanished after some time.

Finally I used CUPS print system http://www.cups.org/ and installed it
like described here http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=98554 .

With the -i option of lpadmin I was able to reuse my previous printer
scripts from /etc/lp/interfaces without any changes (to print with
application MENTOR Graphics Board Station EN2004).

Best regards

Thomas

>-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
>Von: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
>[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]Im Auftrag von Thomas
>Rudolph
>Gesendet: Montag, 9. Januar 2006 11:27
>An: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>Betreff: How to recover /var/spool/lp (Solaris 10)
>
>
>Dear Sun Managers,
>
>how can I recover /var/spool/lp on a Solaris 10 machine,
>without new installation of the whole machine?
>I have no more /var/spool/lp , dunno how it happend,
>but now I look for a possibility to create it again.
>
>I tried to copy it from a Solaris 9 machine, but print services
>always says in /var/lp/logs/lpsched
>"Failed to open a print service file (No such file or directory)"
>
>Or, maybe there is some kind soul who can send me a tar file from
>a /var/spool/lp on a Solris 10 machine ?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Thomas
>_______________________________________________
>sunmanagers mailing list
>sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:38:24 EDT