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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Printer queue not clearing Post 302972143 by bakunin on Monday 2nd of May 2016 05:25:06 AM
Old 05-02-2016
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Originally Posted by bdittmar
I did just that and it says:
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a utility to allow to to bypass the various network printing utilities
and i suppose it did just that: i do not know for certain what happened (not enough data for that), but my supposition is that the netcat-script you use bypasses the printing system so effectively that the job is not removed from the printqueue at all.

Usually a print queue works like this: there is a place where files to be printed (=sent to the printer) are dropped. There is a daemon (usually lpd) which picks up the file and - upon successful procession (=printing worked) removes it, otherwise issues an error message and does not remove it.

What fails, IMHO, is that the netcat-script needs to tell the lpd (or whatever you use in its place) about the successful (or unsuccessful) printing of the job so that the print file can be removed based on this.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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lpr(1)							      Easy Software Products							    lpr(1)

NAME
lpr - print files SYNOPSIS
lpr [ -E ] [ -P destination ] [ -# num-copies [ -l ] [ -o option ] [ -p] [ -r ] [ -C/J/T title ] [ file(s) ] DESCRIPTION
lpr submits files for printing. Files named on the command line are sent to the named printer (or the system default destination if no des- tination is specified). If no files are listed on the command-line lpr reads the print file from the standard input. OPTIONS
The following options are recognized by lpr: -E Forces encryption when connecting to the server. -P destination Prints files to the named printer. -# copies Sets the number of copies to print from 1 to 100. -C name Sets the job name. -J name Sets the job name. -T name Sets the job name. -l Specifies that the print file is already formatted for the destination and should be sent without filtering. This option is equivalent to "-oraw". -o option Sets a job option. -p Specifies that the print file should be formatted with a shaded header with the date, time, job name, and page number. This option is equivalent to "-oprettyprint" and is only useful when printing text files. -r Specifies that the named print files should be deleted after printing them. COMPATIBILITY
The "c", "d", "f", "g", "i", "m", "n", "t", "v", and "w" options are not supported by CUPS and will produce a warning message if used. SEE ALSO
cancel(1), lp(1), lpstat(1), CUPS Software Users Manual, http://localhost:631/documentation.html COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1993-2002 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. 23 January 2001 Common UNIX Printing System lpr(1)
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