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Re: lprm for normal users doesn't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew S Goldstein)
Mon Nov 23 09:35:10 2009
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:34:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew S Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>, ops@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU,
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Is there some sort of notification sent when it does this? I usually only
see jobs that old when something is wrong with the printer (even if it
just needs a reboot), frequently noticing because the queue is so long.
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> I also should mention that I wrote a "queue hoover" as I call it to
> automatically dequeue and remove any print jobs over a day old from all the
> queues. This way, print jobs don't linger until some kind operator removes
> them. I wish that the CUPS feature to just remove defunct jobs worked, but I
> wish for a lot of things.
>
> That job should run hourly and should help in keeping the queue clutter down.
>
> -MM
>
>
