HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

82 Chapter4
Getting Started with HPDPS
Automatically Starting HPDPS
PD_SUPERVISORS="
Super1
Super2
"
The default does not start any supervisors:
PD_SUPERVISORS="
"
NOTE In addition to the above environment variables,the startup configuration
file can also contain the following four environment variables, which can
also be optionally modified:
• PD_MAXTHREADS
• PD_MAXRETRIES
• PD_RETRY_INTERVAL
• PD_MEMLIMIT
For more information on these environment variables, see “Tuning Load
Handling Using HPDPS Environment Variables” and “Summary of
Other Environment Variables” in upcoming sections.
Starting HPDPS
Once you have modified the startup configuration file
/etc/rc.config.d/pd, to start up all the HPDPS components you can
log in as root and enter:
/sbin/init.d/pd start
This string executes the configuration file with the start argument.
Stopping HPDPS Components
To shut down all HPDPS components on your host, enter:
/sbin/init.d/pd stop
This string executes the configuration file with the stop argument.