[Casper] Stuck print queues

Eric Young eyoung at thayer.org
Mon Feb 9 11:41:41 PST 2009


Upon further digging it seems that 10.5 does not have the enable  
command in its /usr/bin.   Odd that part of the tools set would be  
there (cancel -a -) but not the rest.



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Eric Young
eyoung at thayer.org



On Feb 9, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Eric Young wrote:

> well that works a treat.   Course now I have paused queues for the  
> printer :-)
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> On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Brenner, John wrote:
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>> You should be able to send a cancel –a – shell script via casper.
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>> On 2/9/09 12:25 PM, "Eric Young" <eyoung at thayer.org> wrote:
>>
>>> anyone figure out a way to clear local print queues en mass?
>>>
>>> Having an issue where a lab full of machines will all stop  
>>> printing when one or more stations sends a bad job.  These are  
>>> local queues managed by WGM.  Right now, I am hitting every  
>>> machine individually to clear stuck jobs.
>>>
>>> It seems to me there should be a way to blast a script or some  
>>> such, that clears a specific print queue for a whole lab.
>>>
>>> any clues would be greatly appreciated.
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