[cups.general] Deleting spool data

[Michael Sweet]

On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:34 AM, javier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if there's any way of deleting a spool data from cups.
> I've tried removing the data from /var/spool/cups but then I do lpq I can see that the job is still there. My main doubt is where is the job stored? why does the job still appear if I delete de spool file from the folder?

cupsd caches job history in memory.  You should use "cancel -a" to cancel all jobs and their history, or you can set PreserveJobHistory to "no" to tell CUPS not to keep job history:

    cupsctl PreserveJobHistory=no

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair