1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys I have over 2000+ print jobs in one queue which I would like to delete. Is there away in AIX 4.3 that I can delete the whole print jobs at ocne. Instead of one at a time. Thanks (1 Reply)

2. SCO

I have a weird problem, about 6 times a day a print job will be printed twice (out of more than 100 print jobs per day). It seems as though sometimes a print job is not cleared from the print spooler after the first print, and then reprints. This started a week ago after I had made printer... (1 Reply)

3. SCO

I have implemented Laser printers using USB printer servers connected to a SCO server. Sometimes print jobs get stuck on the queue and I havent found a way of getting the printer back to work without canceling the jobs and rebooting the system. Why jobs get stuck? How do I get this solved... (9 Replies)

4. HP-UX

Hello, I have a print queue that the jobs are getting stuck in. I've disabled and enabled the queue, lpshut and lpsched the print spooler, and killed a suspected corrupt job. But new requests still get stuck. I can ping the printer by DNS with no problem. What else can I look for? I'm a little... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am wondering how to catch print jobs to process them before been served to the printer. I was told that the challenge is to catch raw text that an old legacy application sends to the printer (invoices, quotes, etc) and save them as text files to allow a new application to process them... (5 Replies)

6. Linux

Hi all. I have a problem with some printers that when I print a lot of jobs at once the printers gets stuck after 2 prints... (It's a barcode printers - DATAMAX). Whenever I'm printing each job separtly with a delay of a few seconds the printers work fine... So my question is how can I... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have one queue that have status QUEUE and 10 jobs are waiting.Can any one guide me how i can get total number of jobs on this queue.i can see 10 jobs but i need to get count 10 for this queue.Please help me out thanks in advance sagii (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i m having problem to get number of jobs waiting using lpstat.my printer is out of paper and 10jobs are in queue but i run lpstat -pqname it didnt show any thing.any one have idea whats wrong here. thanks sagii (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, Sometimes i need to clear all the jobs of a print queue and it is really annoying to cancel one by one. Is there a way to cancel all print jobs for a specific print queue with a single command instead of cancelling them one by one? My AIX system is 5.3 Thank you for your attention (2 Replies)

10. AIX

Hi, have an aix system with something I've never seen happening. All printers are not printing. I see jobs Queued and printer status as READY but jobs just keep getting queued and nothing's printing. Seems to be a system wide problem since it's affecting all printers. Help... (2 Replies)