[cups] Problem deleting old printer queues

Haines, Brandan BAHaines at cooperstandard.com
Tue Jun 30 08:48:42 PDT 2015


Jim A -

Have you tried "lpadmin -x <queue>" at command line as root?

That should do it.

-Brandan

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From: cups-bounces at cups.org [mailto:cups-bounces at cups.org] On Behalf Of Jim Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 10:24
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Subject: Re: [cups] Problem deleting old printer queues



I'm stuck on this one and hoping someone associated with CUPS can point me where to look on this issue.

Jim A.


On 06/26/2015 01:40 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
>
>
> I am installing CUPS 1.4.4 on a linux system and having a problem with
> permissions.
>
> I bring up my browser and go to localhost:631 and the cups local page
> comes up and shows version 1.4.4. I then click on the 'Administration'
> tab and the administration page comes up as it should, except it shows
> 4 old printer queues that I had created on a different PC.
>
> The current PC is on my local network and the cups installation area
> is on the local network, not on the PC itself. The old PC also had
> CUPS installed on the network. I suspect that my current installation
> is picking up the old queues from the remnants of the old PC
> installation.
>
> My problem is that I cannot delete these old queues. When I clink on a
> link to one of the old queues and then select 'delete' from the
> 'Administration' drop down menu, my brower puts up a page that says
> 'forbidden'.
>
> Can anyone suggest where I can look on my network to find and remove
> the old queue information?
>
> Jim Anderson
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