Waiting for job to complete...

[Greg Jones]

> Greg Jones wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > we are currently in the process of migrating our production system from Unixware to RHEL v4 which is running CUPS cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.8.
> >
> > While everthing is working, as far as I can tell, I noticed the following when using the lpstat -t command.
> >
> > device for laser_main: socket://laser_main:9100
> > printer laser_main is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
> >         Print file sent, waiting for printer to finish...
> >
> >
> > If I change the interface URI to ipp then the message changes to "Waiting for job to complete...".
> >
> > The jobs are been printed correctly but I am curious what is going on. Management noticed the message and want an explanation and all I can find out is that the printer is not telling the cups server that its finished.
> >
> > How can I fix this?
>
> This is an issue with the IPP backend not clearing the message at
> the end.  You can update to 1.1.23 or 1.2 (looks like next week) to
> get rid of this message.
>

Thanks for the quick responce Michael. I'll check for an update from Redhat then.

Greg.


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