One thing that you have to be careful of is if you have made changes and do a
reboot, rather than DOIONOW.  The file that DOIONOW uses, that SYSGEN creates,
gets appended to.

To give an example.  Say someone has added some devices and doesn't feel good
about activating the changes online.  So, they reboot the system and the
additional devices are active on your system.  Now you come in and do some
more device adds.  The file that SYSGEN created the first time is still out
there with the commands to add the devices that were created by the reboot.
So now you run DOIONOW.  Errors appear because you try to add devices that
already exist on your system.

Print a copy of DOIONOW.  It's just a command file, after all.  There is a
reference to a file LOG4ONLN.PUB.SYS.  This is the file that SYSGEN creates
and appends to.  Purge this file before doing any device changes.  Then only
the changes that you want are acted on.

Talk to you .... Later!!

John Burke wrote:

> I've used ioconfig directly to set up 97 (currently) network printers and
> they always come up spooled, whether the printer is already on the network
> or not. So, I would surmise that they should come up spooled from doionow.
>
> If in your case they are not coming up spooled, does a simple startspool
> take care of things or are there additional issues?
>
> John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 1:06 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] doionow
> >
> >
> > hi all!
> >
> > i'm curious about something....  so, you've gone into sysgen
> > and added a printer (and a native network printer if it
> > matters, but i don't think so).  the 'mode' field (in
> > sysgen) includes an 's' -- indicating the device is to be
> > spooled.  after doing all the appropriate holds and keeps,
> > you exit sysgen and do a 'doionow' and viola (:-) -- a new
> > printer suddenly exists.
> >
> > what i'm wondering is -- should that printer be spooled
> > (out)?  (right now, no intervening spool-ish commands)  i
> > always thought so, but i'm hearing otherwise from our remote
> > support folks.       - d
> >
> > --
> > Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
> > 925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]
> >
> > >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
> >

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Ron Horner
HP3000 Systems Admin
JC Penney Co., Inc.
(414) 259-2274