[cups.general] help client jobs

[Steve Smith]

I'm running CUPS 1.3.7 under RH5.2 and have noticed something strange.  My
CUPS print queues are all set to RAW and use socket's to

connect to various printers/plotters.  The software we use has it's own
drivers for the different printer/plotters.

 

I have stopped a CUPS queue for testing but it is still accepting jobs.  On
the CUPS server as either ROOT or a user when I print I see all the jobs in
the relevant CUPS queue, the same happens when I print from Windows using
Unix Print services for Windows.  When I print from a Linux client machine I
see the first print job that is sent by the user in the server queue but no
more until the print queue is started and the first client job has
completed.  The second job from the client then appears and so on, second
job completed and the third appears. While the queue is stopped if i run
lpstat -u on the client machine I can see the jobs that do not show on the
server queues. Why aren't they getting to the server ?

 

Because the client will wait for the first job to complete before sending
the next...

 

Ok I can see some kind of logic to this but if the client jobs stay on the
client while the first job completes on the server when I power cycle the
client machine the outstanding jobs disappear from the client.  Is there any
way to make all the client jobs for the same queue go to the server and not
sit on the client ?

 

 

Steve Smith - GEO Designs Limited

 

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