Spooler Programmer's Guide

Introduction to the Spooler Subsystem

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Spooler States

names will cause the affected components to fail. When starting multiple spooler

subsystems, monitor the spooler error log file (usually $0, the event log file for

operator messages) for reports of process creation errors that indicate that the

specified collector or print process could not be started because the name given

was already in use.

Spooler States

During its life, the spooler cycles through the five states shown in Figure 1-2.

Figure 1-2. Spooler Life Cycle

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WARM

ACTIVE

SPOOLER

DRAIN

DORMANT

Spooler has

finished draining

SPOOLER

START

COLD

SPOOLER

START

Create another

supervisor

Declare and initialize

collectors and

print processes

You can

set

and modify

attributes