If you have a Unix queue name that is long, your job id's may be cut off in the list. So you will be trying to troubleshoot/cancel jobs with "not-found" messages.
lpstat output. Note all job id’s cut off…
printer company_check_M402n now printing company_check_M402n-19101. enabled since Wed Dec 28 05:54:55 2016. available. |
company_check_M402n-191 ebsuser_a 1165 Dec 27 15:36 |
Correct job id’s shown with a short script. Script below is self explanatory:
Listing LP spool job id's |
company_check_M402n-19104 |
from os import listdir,path |
from os.path import isfile, join |
print "Listing LP spool job id's" |
spoolpath='/var/spool/lp/requests/localhost/' |
onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir(spoolpath) if isfile(join(spoolpath, f))] |
fname = path.abspath(spoolpath + f) |
with open(fname) as spoolfile: |
lines = spoolfile.readlines() |
