I am posting this to the list as well, as it is an interesting
question.
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 23 03:01:32 2002
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:01:30 -0700
> From: Akop Pogosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Patrick Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: LPRng: queue files stay forver
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 01:51:57PM -0700, Patrick Powell wrote:
> > This is normal... The status has to be put somewhere...
> >
> > Patrick
> >
>
> What's confusing me is that some jobs remain in the queue even after
> some others have been printed afterwards. For example:
>
> $ lpq
> Printer: lp is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Printer: panic10@panic 'HP LaserJet 4000DN in 426 Birge (duplex)'
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Server: no server active
> Status: job 'mcargo@panic7+524' removed at 16:09:08.301
> Filter_status: done at 16:00:01.259
> Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
> error knobloch@panic8+846 A 846 ERROR: job removal requested
>
> knobloch has attempted to print his thing a long while ago and lots of
> people have printed thnigs after than, yet, thit entry still remains
> in lpq output. Shouldn't lpq show the status of the last completed
> job?
>
> -akop
Hmmm... well well well. This baffled me for a bit until I realized
what was happening and looked at the code again.
The 'done jobs' code does the following:
First it generates the 'sorted job order' for display.
This sorts jobs by 'error jobs' and then 'done jobs'
Note that 'done jobs' come AFTER error jobs. If jobs
are done in job1 job2 ... order then we have
So we have: error 2
error 1
...
done 3
done 4
Now we run down the list of 'error and done' jobs, and remove
all but N of them:
error 2 N=1
So we have the 'last error job' retained, instead of the last
'done job'.
Grrrr.... I really need to sort the jobs by 'completion time' and then
remove all but the last N jobs...
I have put this on the 'TO DO' list and it will get done soon.
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)
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