HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

80 Chapter4

Getting Started with HPDPS

Automatically Starting HPDPS

To automatically start HPDPS during system startup, modify the

startup conﬁguration ﬁle /etc/rc.config.d/pd. (If any HPDPS

components have already been started in accordance with “Starting

HPDPS Components”, ﬁrst modify this ﬁle and then shut down the

system; then restart as shown in “Starting HPDPS”.)

The startup conﬁguration ﬁle contains the following conﬁguration

information:

• a list of servers to start on this host

• whether to start components in the Basic or DCE Extended

Environment.

• the deﬁnition of $PDPRNPATH for locating printer model information.

The following environment variables are contained within the

conﬁguration ﬁle. You should modify the environment variables as

appropriate:

PD_ENV deﬁnes the HPDPS print environment.

Set to basic to execute in the Basic Environment.

Choose this environment if your host is not a member

of a DCE cell.

Set to extended to execute in the DCE Extended

Environment. Your host must be conﬁgured in a DCE

cell to execute in this environment.

The default setting is the Basic Environment:

PD_ENV=basic

PDPRNPATH deﬁnes the colon-separated list of paths in which

HPDPS printer model ﬁles appear. The supervisor will

look for model ﬁles in these directories. The default

setting is:

PDPRNPATH=/opt/pd/lib/model:/var/opt/pd/lib/mod

PD_CLIENT chooses whether this host runs the client daemon.