ITEM: BE9535L

Passing -o flags to print server with rembak remote client

ENV:
        AIX 3.2.5
        Various machines types
DESC:
        I have a queue setup on machine garfield.  This queue has
        a custom backend program which is an executable, not a 
        script.  The permissions on the script are 6555 root:printq.
        I can send jobs to this queue fine, and my backend works
        as desired.  I have a remote queue setup to this queue from     
        another AIX client machine socrates.  When socrates sends a
        job to this queue I have two problems:

        1) Flags sent with the -o option are not passed to the backend
           on the server garfield.

        2) I see the message 0781-312 on the client's console, or in
           the user's mail if I don't have writesrc daemon running.
ACT:
        Tested this out by recreating as closely as possible here.
        On server fozzy I added this to the /etc/qconfig file:

        lpz:
                device = lpzd
        lpzd:
                file = FALSE
                backend = /tmp/echoflags

        Then ran enq -d to redigest qconfig.

        the script /tmp/echoflags contains these two lines:

        \#!/bin/ksh
        echo $* > /tmp/flags

        Then, on client machine e3017 I created a remote queue to
        this queue named rlpz (remote lpz).

        On e3017:
          enq -Prlpz -o option1 -o option2 /etc/motd

        On fozzy:
          cat /tmp/flags

        option1 option2 /var/spool/lpd/asdf23456

        You modified your backend slightly and got similar results -
        we know that flags will be passed to your backend program.
                Next, what generates the message 0781-312 to appear on the
        client's console when the job runs on the server?

        To recreate this, do a chmod 000 /tmp/flags on the server
        or just change your backend /tmp/echoflags script to this:

        \#!/bin/ksh
        sdafgasgsd

        When you submit a job from the client, it now gets back the
        0781-312 Request /etc/motd removed from queue lpz:dlpz. 
                 Could not open or stat file(s)

        From the queue and queue device name, we know the message is
        being sent back from the server and it is sent back whenever
        the backend program tries to write anything to stderr.  It
        does NOT send this message back when the backend writes to
        stdout, though stdout is set to /dev/null.

Response:

Closing with Customer Approval



Support Line: Passing -o flags to print server with rembak remote client ITEM: BE9535L

Dated: February 1996 Category: N/A

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