HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 4 83
Getting Started with HPDPS
Setting HPDPS Environment Variables
Setting HPDPS Environment Variables
The following information helps you to set (or verify the setting of) the
HPDPS-related environment variables.
Setting the PATH Environment Variable
During the installation process, HPDPS updates the HP-UX PATH
environment variable definition in /etc/PATH to include the directory
location of the HPDPS executable files; HPDPS appends :/opt/pd/bin
to the paths already specified.
Users can use the following format to allow their PATH value to append
the paths specified in the /etc/PATH file:
PATH=$PATH:/ path1 :/ path2
Setting the PD_CONFIRM_DELETE Environment
Variable
The PD_CONFIRM_DELETE environment variable enables or disables a
confirmation message for the pdclean, pddelete, and pdrm commands.
Possible values are no and yes. The default value is yes - HPDPS will
display a confirmation message before processing a delete request. No
confirmation messages will display if you set the value to no. Under
normal conditions, you will not want to change the default value.
If, however, you decide to set the value of PD_CONFIRM_DELETE to no, edit
your .profile file and add the line:
export PD_CONFIRM_DELETE=no
To set the value of the PD_CONFIRM_DELETE environment variable for the
duration of your login session only, enter:
export PD_CONFIRM_DELETE=no
at the command line.
Setting the PDPRINTER Environment Variable
The PDPRINTER environment variable identifies the default logical
printer. Defining a default logical printer allows your users to submit