Reseting (next) Job ID

[Helge Blischke]

Jonathan wrote:
> I have been printing on my desktop for a long time.  My last job ID was 20,405.  When I want to cancel jobs, etc., that's a long number to type - especially when my Deskjet is spewing out pages of junk because I made a mistake and printed a non-print file, etc.
> 
> How can I reset the job ID back to zero?
> 
> On this particular machine, I am running Mandrake 9.1 and cups-1.1.19-0.2mdk.
> 
> I may also want to do this on my (much) newer notebook which uses kubuntu hardy with its version of CUPS.
> 
> Thanks.

If the ubuntu folks did not hack CUPS, version 1.1.19 should
reset the job IDs if you do a complete restart
/etc/init.d/cups stop
and
/etc/init.d/cups start

Helge


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