[Casper] Stuck print queues

[Ryan Harter]

Part of the problem is that in Leopard the default job fail procedure  
is to pause the printer.  Now that you need admin privs to unpause the  
printer, this can be bothersome.

I've got a script that runs at login the ensures the correct printer  
is default, and I added this section to the end to change the default  
error-policy on all printers to abort job.  This has really reduced  
the calls we get from labs saying the printers are paused.

#!/bin/bash

printers=`lpstat -a | awk '{print $1}'`
for printer in $printers
do
	echo "Changing error policy on $printer"
	lpadmin -p "$printer" -o printer-error-policy=abort-job
done

exit

Hope it helps.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:11 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.
>>
>>
>> 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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