Cups won't restart

[Michael Sweet]

Vipin Samuel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am running cups on Red Hat Enterprise 3. It was installed from rpm cups-1.1.17-13.3.12. I cannot restart cups. Everytime I try it it hangs up and I have to reboot the machine. Killing cups pids do not work either. Any sugesstions would be appreciated.

This could be a very very old MaxJobs bug in CUPS; try the following
to purge the job history:

     cd /var/spool/cups
     rm -f c* d*

and then try starting the CUPS service:

     service cups start

You can set the MaxJobs value in cupsd.conf - in older releases we
defaulted to 0 (unlimited), but in current releases the default is
500 jobs.

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