I am running Universe 10.1.12 for RHLINUX on Fedora 4.
When my database software prints a job in Universe, it works ok, but any
jobs printed after that are stored in spool hold and are never output. I
have to manually go into /usr/spool/uv, find the print job and then do a
#cat uv(printjobnumber) | lpr to get it to print.

Or I can completely log off of universe and then log back in and then print
the job each time.
Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone know a fix for this?

More details.....
I was running this same system on AIX/Universe and transferred over to a PC
based system running Fedora. This problem did not occur on AIX. On Fedora,
everything is working fine except for some terminal emulation issues and
this one printing problem.
Printing system in Universe is set up to where :
LP0 /dev/null BAUD 9600 DRIVER /usr/spool/lpd XOFF STARTANY OFF PARITY None
TABS
ON FFDELAY 1 LFDELAY 0 DATABITS 8
and /usr/spool/lpd says:
#!/bin/sh
#
#simple interface to glue UniVerse to Network printer
#
cat -|lpr -P lpd

Anyhelp is appreciated,
Mike

It's submitting all print jobs to the DRIVER /usr/spool/lpd. Find one
of your uv job numbers then type;

cat <uv job number> | /usr/spool/lpd

This is what the universe spooler does with jobs. If it comes back with
a job number, then the driver file is OK. If it fails, change
/usr/spool/lpd to
cat -| lpr - this will submit the print job to the default
printer.

If it still fails, either (1) the spooler system in not running
correctly - restart it from the uvadmin menu in the UV account, or (2)
you need to load a form for the printer

Hope this helps.

I am not sure if it can be your problem. Fedora uses CUPS as RHES. I do
not work with Universe, but with D3 sometimes i have had problems with
CUPS. You can deinstall CUPS and reinstall the old LPD.

Hope this help

joseba

Thanks, that could be the problem, I will try to change over.


"jra" <frelance (AT) sarenet (DOT) es> wrote

I changed over and still have the same problem. The jobs get spooled and sit
in a hold file and are not released. Universe list them as being in a wait
mode. What are they waiting for? They are waiting for me to go into the
spool file and manualy send them to the printer.....

Anyone else have any ideas?
"mike@cvp" <lbpipe (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

The DRIVER /usr/spool/lpd consists of the command cat -| lpr already.


"Martin Kent" <martin.kent (AT) post-relational (DOT) co.uk> wrote

What is the output from the SETPTR command? Sounds like printing a job
sets the Print Mode to 3 - "Output to Hold File"

Here is the output of SETPTR
Page Width : 132
Page Depth : 60
Top Margin : 3
Bottom Margin : 3
Print mode : 1 - Spooled Output

Suppress spool banner : On
Display job numbers : On
Destination printer : LP0
Output form name : 0



"Martin Kent" <martin.kent (AT) post-relational (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Anyone have any ideas of what the cause of this would be? Again, if I log
off and log back on,. it will let me print again. Other then that, I can not
print more then once.
Thanks

"mike@cvp" <lbpipe (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote