This is what a sample from the status.pr file looks like. You can see at the end it saves the job. This is good. But I don't know where to go to look for the deletion of the file after 4 hours. I see no errors in the logs.
subserver pid 8852 starting at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.067 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 accounting at start at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.067 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 opening device 'sales20%9100' at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.067 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 waiting for subserver to exit at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.069 ## A=<NULL> number=0 process=8850 printing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.086 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 processing 'dfA003GRAMLW', size 28619, format 'l', IF filter 'none - passthrough' at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.087 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 printing finished at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.102 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 accounting at end at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.105 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.106 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8852 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.107 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8850 job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' saved at 2004-04-01-08:02:03.119 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=3 process=8850 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Hammer Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: File deletion Can you find any error messages, either in the queue log or in /var/log/messages, or whatever. Joel On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:36:51PM -0600, Sam Warren wrote: > This is really beginning to be annoying! I was running Debian on my > s390 with LPRng print server. Everything was fine. Then one day it > seemed to stop deleting the data files for each print job. I solved > the problem by running a cron job which ran checkpc -r -A 2H to remove > everything older than 2 hours. However, I don't like this because if a > queue is stalled for longer than 2 hours, which we did have happening > over night, we were loosing print jobs because they were over 2 hours > old. I have now installed a replacement server. It is SUSE running on > an x86 box. It has been up 2 weeks and today when I checked it, there > were data files that had been sitting out there for over 200 hours. I > did a checkpc -r -A 4H and it deleted a massive number of files, > including 9 jobs that had been stalled for more than 4 hours in a > print queue we were working on. What is going on with this? Why isn't > it deleting files? > > > > > Sam Warren, Jr. > > > Computer Technician > Winnebago Industries > 641-585-3535 ext. 7785 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
