On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Hans Peter Verne wrote: > Henrik Edlund wrote: > > > Why? You can't just go about and delete jobs because the printer ran out > > of paper. > > Why not? > > Off-topic, I know. But it seems to me that most people (or at least > many people, at the Univ. of Oslo) consider print services to be a > real-time thing. They print, and plod over to the printer. If the > job is not there, well, it must have been eaten somewhere, better > go back and print again. Etc. etc. ad nauseaum.
Exactly. And this is especially true about newbie users, and I've got about 150 in my system right now. > I don't know how many times I've cleared a stuck print queue for > identical copies of the same job. I've played with the thought of > having a per printer configurable max lifetime in the queue -- if the > job has not been printed within 10 minutes, ditch it. This is what I wanted. The only alternative is to let users do 'lprm -Pprinter all', but I'm not sure if that is a good solution. -Johan Bengtsson -- http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~elijah/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
