[CentOS] cups / cli stopped print jobs problem

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:00:17 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> On occasion, we get a printer that becomes disabled, and jobs begin to
> queue up.  When the issue is resolved, we re-enable the printer and
> usually all the jobs print out.
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> However, sometimes the first job never prints, but the others do.  The
> cups interface shows the job is stopped. IfI restart the job in the cups
> interface, it prints.
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> Is there a way to determine, via the command line,  if a print job is in
> the stopped state, or a queue has jobs in this state.  Also, is there a
> way to restart the job if its stopped.

lpstat	-- printer, queue, and job status
lp	-- queue or alter print jobs
cancel	-- cancels print jobs

Documentation is available:

man lpstat
man lp
man cancel

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> We are running centos 5.3 and cups 1.3.7.  Any help would be
> appreciated.
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