'held for authetication'

Jen Roidt jenr at cooperfarms.com
Mon May 14 07:57:36 PDT 2012


> 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
>

thank you Helge. I have to admit I was skeptical about this answer as we've had to put a username & Password in on the gui screen to release it but this seems to work as well.




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