[cups.general] Printers running away and spewing pages under CUPS

[Rob Tanner]

Hi,

I recently installed a print server using CUPS with the intent of 
retiring our older Lprng server.  We provide printing services for both 
Macs and PCs.  I'm seeing an intermittent  problem under CUPS that I did 
not see with Lprng.  A user will submit a job and the printer will print 
it over and over again.  CUPS may even tell me that the print job is 
done, but a ps -ef (the OS is FC4), I will see a spurious socket process 
with a PPID of 1.  Since we do print accounting, the backend is actually 
started by a wrapper:

       my $exitval = system {"/usr/lib64/cups/backend/$realBackend"} @argv;

The wrapper itself (the perl system command) thinks the job is done and 
the wrapper is no longer, only the backend is. 

Has anybody seen this kind of a problem before?  Any idea what's going on.

Thanks.

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Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR