Enq Command?

[Brian H. Black]

Hi All,

We are trying to use the enq -m 'message to op' format of enq to control

and mount special forms and we are getting strange results. The operator

gets a message and then it takes the que down and a weird message comes
back to the printing user saying "UNKNOWN".
Is anyone having success with this method? What might we be doing
wrong. I thought up till now AIX messages were pretty good but "UNKOWN"

it not very specific. Has anyone had any experience using this option
of Enq?

Brian

[LAIX Software Consulting]

When you do an lpstat or enq -A you're checking for the status of the print
queues from the stat files in /var/spool/lpd/stat. A status of UNKNOWN
usually indicates that the status of the queue cannot be determined from the

stat file. It could be a full /var, bogus files in /var/spool/lpd/stat, or
the
qdaemon is running but "hung". Does stopsrc -cs qdaemon ; startsrc -s
qdaemon free up the printer in the UNKNOWN status?

Regards,
Paul