changing priority of a queued job

[Kurt Pfeifle]

dkastens.uos <dkastens at uos.de> wrote (Thursday 29 June 2006 13:53):

>> You can change the priority via the "lp" command:
>>
>>      lp -i job-id -q priority
>>
>> That said, doing so only changes the order of the "pending" jobs
>> and will not interrupt a job that is currently being printed.
> 
> I stopped the cups printer and sent 3 jobs to it (job-ids 257, 258, 
> 259), each of them had a priority of 50. Then I changed the priority 
> of job 259 to 70 (using lp -q) and started the print queue. The jobs 
> were printed in the order 257, 258, 259. So changing the priority 
> had no effect on the order of the output. I'm using cups-1.2.1-1.

Were those jobs all processed on localhost? In this case I think
it is a bug, and you should report it at http://www.cups.org/str.php

Cheers,
Kurt