'held for authetication'

[Helge Blischke]

Jen Roidt wrote:

> We are often getting print jobs held for authentication on our new RHEL6
> server.  We then have to go into the gui and release them.  The same
> printer will work most of the time and then next thing you know, there is
> a job held for authentication.
> 
> We've been in contact with Red Hat with no satisfying results.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas on this we'd appreciate it.
> 
> Also - does any one know of a command line option for releasing these
> print jobs instead of us going into the gui??? its a virtualized machine
> so we have to log into vcenter and then the gui - it would be much quicker
> if there was just a command we could type.
> 
> Thanks.
I don't know the cause of this issue, but here is the command line 
workaround:

lp -i jobid -H resume

where jobid is the numeric job number of the held job.

Helge