JetAdmin remote printing failure

2007-12-25 10:01:00

As usual the list comes through. The problem came from the wrong

version of the echo command being used.

> From: Matthew Stier <mstier@hotmail.com>

>

> Sounds like the print system was stopped and restarted by someone

> with /usr/ucb in thier path first.

>

> The script /etc/init.d/lp inherits it environment, and will not run

> properly if run with Berkley versions of several commands.

> From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>

>

> I've run into this problem a bunch of times, it's a problem with which

> version of 'echo' is being used. What you do is this, on the print

> server machine:

====

>From the man page on "echo":

Note that the escape conventions are not available if the

BSD version of the Bourne shell echo command is used. (See

OPTIONS section)

====

I stopped the print system and restarted it with /usr/bin before /usr/ucb

in my path and that fixed it...mostly. In trying to figure out what was

wrong in had removed and added 2 printers while the wrong echo command's

path was in place. I had to remove and add them again after restarting the

print services.

Thanks to:

Matthew Stier <mstier@hotmail.com>

John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>

Michael Shannon <mike@FL.ENSCO.COM>

Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>

Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk>

Frank Pardo <fpardo@tisny.com>

Jonathan Loh <jloh@netjet.com>

Eric S Johnson <esj@cs.fiu.edu>

Erwin Fritz <efritz@glja.com>

Rick von Richter <rickv@mwh.com>

and anyone else I might have left out by accident.

My original message:

> Help! Suddenly remote printing has failed from our Sun machines. The

> printers affected are all HP's with JetDirect cards. They were configured

> using JetAdmin ver.D.02.10 on a Sparc20 running Solaris 2.4 and everything

> seemed to be working fine. Now clients print jobs seem to go OK but all

> that comes out is one page with:

>

>

> \033%-12345X\c

> @PJL USTATUS PAGE =OFF

> @PJL JOB NAME = "User: machine!user; Job:

>

> The clients machines are all sparcs running 2.4. I checked everything I

> can think of. Any help would be appreciated.

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