CentOS - Aug 2009 - cups / cli stopped print jobs problem

On occasion, we get a printer that becomes disabled, and jobs begin to
queue up.  When the issue is resolved, we re-enable the printer and
usually all the jobs print out.

However, sometimes the first job never prints, but the others do.  The
cups interface shows the job is stopped. IfI restart the job in the cups
interface, it prints.

 

Is there a way to determine, via the command line,  if a print job is in
the stopped state, or a queue has jobs in this state.  Also, is there a
way to restart the job if its stopped.

 

We are running centos 5.3 and cups 1.3.7.  Any help would be
appreciated.

 

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> On occasion, we get a printer that becomes disabled, and jobs begin to
> queue up.  When the issue is resolved, we re-enable the printer and
> usually all the jobs print out.
> 
> However, sometimes the first job never prints, but the others do.  The
> cups interface shows the job is stopped. IfI restart the job in the cups
> interface, it prints.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a way to determine, via the command line,  if a print job is in
> the stopped state, or a queue has jobs in this state.  Also, is there a
> way to restart the job if its stopped.
lpstat	-- printer, queue, and job status
lp	-- queue or alter print jobs
cancel	-- cancels print jobs

Documentation is available:

man lpstat
man lp
man cancel
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> 
> We are running centos 5.3 and cups 1.3.7.  Any help would be
> appreciated.
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