> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 28 12:26:15 2002 > From: Dave Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: LPRng: releasing jobs > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:37:05 -0500 (EST) > > I've got a little problem here. I sometimes need to be able to stop a printer, > and then release jobs to it one at a time, in an order of my choosing. > > I do "lpc stop testprinter", and it stops the printer. Fine so far. > > There are several jobs in the queue. I do (say) "lpc release testprinter 485" > to print job ID 485. It prints. So far so good. > > But the printer has now been restarted, and other jobs follow immediately. > I needed to print job 364 and no other at this point.
lpc hold all lpc release xxx ..... snore snore snore lpc release all > > I suppose I can do a holdall on the printer, individually hold the jobs that > are already queued up, release jobs one at a time (do I need to unhold them > to do that?), and then eventually do a noholdall and individually unhold > all the held jobs that are left. That means a lot of keeping track, as there > might be jobs which were held before I started this & which are supposed to > *stay* held, for example, until someone else is ready. > > Why does "release" start the queue instead of just sending one single job? > Is there a way around this? This was wanted by users who would 'release' a job and then wonder why it did not get printed. I look in my notes that there is the usual 'be it on your heads, guys' warning about this. Sigh... > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. This is going to be a really big > headache for me if I can't find a reliable way around it VERY soon. > > > -- > - Dave Lovelace > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
