Re: [LINUX5250] autostarting lp5250d

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 elmars.ositis@xxxxxx wrote:

> Before I go spending my time inventing the wheel, I would like to ask
> whether anyone has built an init script around lp5250d to autostart some
> as/400 printer connections. What I would like to do is configure a number
> of printers and have the init manager monitor their status and restart them
> if for some reason they fail. I have some ideas on how to do this, but if
> anyone has done this before, I would rather not re-invent the wheel...

This probably isn't exactly what you want but here is the script I use. 
This can be run from cron.


#!/bin/bash
#
# This checks to see if lp5250d era1-print is running and if so kills
# and restarts it.  Otherwise it just starts it.

PID=`ps ax | grep "lp5250d era1-print" | egrep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`

if [ "$PID" ]; then
#    echo "Killing lp5250d era1-print (PID ${PID})..."
    kill ${PID}
    lp5250d era1-print
else
#    echo "No PID!!"
#    echo "Starting lp5250d era1-print..."
    lp5250d era1-print
fi


James Rich

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