HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 4 85

Getting Started with HPDPS

Setting HPDPS Environment Variables

Summary of Other Environment Variables

The following table summarizes other environment variables.

Table 4-1 Environment Variables

Variable Description

PDPATH A path of directories that are searched for the ﬁle name speciﬁed in the

-X

AttributesFileName

ﬂag. Multiple directories are separated by a

colon (:). If the PDPATH environment variable does not exist, the current

working directory of the person submitting the command is used.

Commands: All

PDBASE Speciﬁes the root directory where the HPDPS server stores all of its

working ﬁles, such as logging or tracing ﬁles. Each server has its own

subdirectory under this directory to avoid name conﬂict when multiple

servers are on the same machine. Commands: pdstartspl,

pdstartsuv, pdstartclientd

PD_MEMLIMIT Deﬁnes the maximum amount of memory (in kilobytes) the spooler or

supervisor can use on the host system.

PD_SOCKET The value for the socket number provided by your HPDPS administrator.

The socket number you specify should be for a HPDPS client and

compatible with the value you specify for your LANG environment

variable.

PDIDTABLE Controls the size of the table that maps local job identiﬁer numbers and

global job identiﬁer numbers for jobs submitted to HPDPS clients. If you

have many users who submit a small number of jobs, you can improve

performance by reducing the size of the tables for each user.

LANG The name of the locale to use for local categories when neither LC_ALL

nor the corresponding environment variable beginning with LC_

speciﬁes a locale. Used to determine the language, territory, or character

set of messages and other information that are sent to a person.

Commands: All

LC_ALL The name of the locale used to override any values for local categories

speciﬁed by the setting of LANG or any environment variables beginning

with LC_.

Commands: All