qdaemon process

The qdaemon tracks both job requests and the resources necessary to complete the jobs, where the resources may be a real printer, some other real device, or even a file.

The qdaemon is a process that runs in the background under the auspices of the srcmstr process. When you turn your system on, the startsrc command starts the qdaemon. While the qdaemon can be started by the startsrc command or stopped by the stopsrc command, the qdaemon supports only signal communications and thus cannot be queried by the lssrc command.

The qdaemon tracks both job requests and the resources necessary to complete the jobs, where the resources may be a real printer, some other real device, or even a file. The qdaemon maintains queues of outstanding requests and sends them to the proper device at the proper time. The qdaemon also records printer usage data for system accounting purposes. It is the qdaemon that sets the backend for a spooler queue into execution.

If the qdaemon is aborted, it will be restarted by srcmstr.