Oh...and I should note that this machine running CUPS is a print
server, for an entire LAN of 500+ clients....its not just stand
alone...though I don't know if that makes a difference...
Todd wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm running the following:
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
>
>
> and
>
>
> cups-1.1.22
>
>
> I am serving 20 differrent printers (all HP printers of different
> flavors...) Occasionaly, one or more of the printer queues will become
> 'jammed', in other words, it becomes stopped up with print jobs, but no
> jobs come out of the printer. I have found the only way to fix this is
> to make a change to the printer in the system-config-printer dialog,
> and apply it. This resets the printer in question, and printing works
> again.
>
> This is obviously not a permanent solution to the problem, since I
> would really like for print queues to not get jammed up at all.
>
>
> So...here are the questions:
>
> Why does this happen periodically? Why do my print queues get filled
> up? Is there a way to avoid this from happening in the future?
>
>
> Any help/thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This print
> server is remote, and I'd really like to be able to set this up, and
> then forget about it.
>
>
> - Thanks,
>
>
> Todd
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