Thanks for the help. There is a way to get the information, but its ugly. Was hoping for a more straight forward method. If a printer is down, I can us lpstat -l printer name to determine if a job is stopped, but I could not figure out a way to easily determine the status of jobs in the queue, such as stopped, processing, queued. _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:12 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] cups / cli stopped print jobs problem At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:00:17 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message > > > 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. > > 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. > > > > 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