changing priority of a queued job

[Michael Sweet]

dkastens.uos wrote:
>> 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.

Please file a bug report at:

    http://www.cups.org/str.php

I can't promise a fix for 1.2.2, but if we can confirm this bug it
*will* get fixed in one of the 1.2.x releases.

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