The behavior you are seeing sounds like a bug in lpsched, but I don't
know that I have enough information to be certain.
You might turn on the syslogd(1m) lpr.debug logging and take a look at
it. lpsched and some of the interface scripts log several key events
and bits of information that should allow you to get a better idea of
what's going on. You might also take a looks that the logs in /var/lp/logs.
-Norm
Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a customer facing a strange problem using lp (no cups).
> The printer is offline, so no queue will be flushed there, then I run a lot
> of "lp" commands to the printer.
> Before Solaris 10 (but probably before Solaris 9) lpstat would return the
> entire queue with a list of pending job numbers, so I may delete the jobs via
> cancel.
> Now, if you do lpstat (and the printer is still offline), the queue looks
> like it's being flushed regularly, and each lpstat jobs disappear as if
> they're done.
> Then, still with the printer offline, I reboot the machine, and I can see the
> jobs reappear in lpstat, and then again disapper (like if they're bouncing in
> a sub queue, that I cannot see, and got back from time to time).
> What changed in lp / lpstat?
That's a fairly open ended question, but the short version is that
lp/lpstat haven't changed significantly in s10.
> How can I see job numbers for waiting jobs?
>
lpstat(1) is really it.
-Norm
