HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 293

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Shutting Down and Restarting the Spooler

This section describes how to shut down the spooler. You have the

following options:

• shutting down the spooler immediately

• shutting down the spooler after all of the jobs in the queues contained

in the spooler have been scheduled and printed

Shutting Down the Spooler Immediately

Use the pdshutdown command to immediately shut down a spooler

process. Under normal conditions there is no reason to shut down a

spooler. The only reasons to shut down a spooler would be for a condition

requiring re-initialization of the system on which the spooler is installed

or a condition requiring you to issue the HP-UX shutdown command.

Issuing the HP-UX shutdown command also shuts down HPDPS

spoolers and supervisors.

To shut down spooler Spool1 immediately, enter:

pdshutdown Spool1

The value of the non-settable server-state server attribute changes to

terminating and the spooler accepts no commands other than pdls

commands. The logical printers contained in the spooler no longer accept

jobs and jobs in the queues contained in the spooler are not scheduled.

Jobs sent to physical printers by the spooler will ﬁnish printing after the

spooler has shut down, but there is no way for you or the users to ﬁnd out

about job status or to receive notiﬁcation messages for the jobs until the

spooler is running again. You will receive notiﬁcation messages if the

physical printer handling the job needs attention.

NOTE The -w ﬂag of the pdshutdown command determines the manner in

which the spooler shuts down. The default option for this ﬂag is

after-current, specifying that the spooler shuts down immediately,

even if there are jobs in the queues contained in the spooler. Therefore,

the command you entered in this example is equivalent to the command:

pdshutdown -w after-current Spool1