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Performing Routine Spooler Operations Using
Spoolcom
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Starting a Drained Spooler
Starting a Drained Spooler
Warmstarting a spooler is theact of bringing the spooler from the warm state to the
active state. When the spooler is dormant, the supervisor is not running. As soon as you
create another supervisor process, the spooler enters the warm state. When you
warmstart the spooler, you use the same control files and other files that were in use
when the spooler was previously drained.
Coldstarting a spooler is the act of starting a new spooler. When you coldstart a spooler,
you create new control files in which the collectors store jobs (when you warmstart the
spooler, the collectors use existing control files).
The key distinction is that in a coldstart the supervisor is run with a new control file,
while in a warmstart the supervisor is given the name of an existing control file. Before
you coldstart your spooler, you must purge all existing supervisor control files. The
coldstart process creates new control files. Any jobs waiting in the current queue file are
purged during a coldstart, and users must respool these jobs after the coldstart finishes.
Warmstarting a Drained Spooler
1. Log on as a super-group user (255, n ), but not as the super ID (255,255).
2. Run the spooler supervisor, supplying the name of an existing spooler control file:
> SPOOL / IN control-filename , NAME $supervisor-process /
See the Spooler Utilities Reference Manual for a description of the SPOOL
program.
3. Optionally add, delete, or modify collectors, print processes, devices, and routing
structures (see Section 15, Managing the Spooler Using Spoolcom ).
4. Start the spooler:
> SPOOLCOM SPOOLER, START
Note. If you are warmstarting the spooler after migrating from one system version to
another, see the migration considerations in the Spooler Utilities Reference Manual.