Web page 'Jobs' page shows only one job

[Michael Sweet]

John A. Murdie wrote:
> A user here has complained that (with CUPS 1.2.5) when he issues
> several lp(1) commands in reasonably quick succession, the web page
> 'Jobs' list page shows only his top job (for that printer). Only when
> that job has been printed does the next one appear in the web
> listing. I've reproduced this problem. No report like this is in the
> bugs list or in the list of fixes for 1.2.6 and 1.2.7. Is it meant to
> work like this?

No, you should see all of the pending jobs on the active job list.

> Oddly, another CUPS 1.2.5 server we have on another machine does show
> multiple entries in a queue for one user - differently-named files.
> 
> Is this something configurable that I might have set incorrectly
> without realising it? (But I've searched the cupsd.conf help file
> without success.) I can't believe that this is not something silly I
> have done.

No, I'd guess you are running into something specific to that system.
Make sure the two systems have the same software installed...

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