samba - Sep 2009 - URGENT: printer problem under 3.3.7

I (cross-)posted a few days ago about TDB files growing for individual 
printers. These TDB files are holding onto information about previous 
jobs after they have been printed.

This is on AIX 5.3 that was just upgraded from 3.0.31 about 20 days ago.

The problem now is we are bumping up against the "max print jobs" of 
1000 for some really busy queues.

Is there a way to remove this old information from the TDB file? 
Shouldn't Samba remove this knowledge after the job is printed?

I will file a bug in bugzilla about the details, but I was wondering if 
this is a known problem in some other thread since Bugzilla searches 
turned up not related for "print" and "tdb".


Cheers,
Bill

Hi

2009/9/4 William Jojo <w.jojo at hvcc.edu>:
>
> I (cross-)posted a few days ago about TDB files growing for individual
> printers. These TDB files are holding onto information about previous jobs
> after they have been printed.
[...]
> Is there a way to remove this old information from the TDB file?
Shouldn't
> Samba remove this knowledge after the job is printed?
[...]

Maybe you could use perl's TDB_File module or tdbtool to delete old
records as a workaround until the issue has been resolved:

http://search.cpan.org/~anguslees/TDB_File-0.90/TDB_File.pm
http://linux.die.net/man/8/tdbtool

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>