On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:26:26PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > [please keep me in the CC line for replies, as I am not subscribed to > this list] > > Since upgrading one of our servers that handles a number of print queues > to Red Hat 7.3, I started getting complaints about jobs not getting > removed from the print queues -- they would get printed, then their > status would change to paused in the print queue dialog on the Windows > machines. This also meant that the printer icon in the system tray > didn't disapear, which a number of users used to check when their job > had finished printing. > > This problem occurs because the version of LPRng (3.8.9) that ships with > RH7.3 lists the last few finished jobs in the output of lpq with their > rank listed as "done". The output looks something like this: > > Printer: hp5100@blinky (dest auto@hp5100) > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Server: no server active > Status: job 'james@blinky+708' saved at 16:06:16.677 > Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time > done carole@blinky+580 A 580 smbprn.007629.i16aS5 99120 > 10:34:44 > done james@blinky+708 A 708 smbprn.000024.rW1nDr 72089 > 16:06:16 > JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on the port Auto > > I wrote a simple patch to solve this problem. If it encounters a print > job with its rank set to "done", it sets the status field to LPQ_PRINTED > (which seems like the most appropriate status). This seems to solve the > problem for us -- the completed jobs don't show up paused, and the > printer icon in the system tray disapears when the job completes. > > It would be useful to get this patch included in future 2.2 releases.
Applied - thanks ! Jeremy.
