Cannot add or delete a given printer

[Reinhardt]

I have a couple of printers that are giving me problems.

If I try to delete them (with sam or removequeue), it says that they don't exist and if I try to add them (using sam or addqueue) it says that the already exist.

I've tried deleting some these printers' files from the various directories inside /etc/lp, but no luck.

Is there a way to manually wipe out all traces of a printer so I can add it again from scratch?

Thanks.

[OldSchool]

did you also remove the request directory?

/var/spool/lp/request/

[OldSchool]

also, did you do and lpshut & lpsched after removal?

[Reinhardt]

Thanks. That got me halfway there.

I should have mentioned it in the original post, but one of the problem printers was a laserjet and the other was a remote printer (Oce/Canon).

Removing the request directory removed all traces of the laserjet and I was able to re-add it successfully.

But it didn't help in removing the remote printer (it's an Oce/Canon). I confirmed that I removed the file from all directories under /etc/lp and /var/spool/lp/request, but it still shows up in sam, but doesn't let me delete it or re-add it.

[Court Campbell]

I have a feeling Bill Hassell can answer this.

[Court Campbell]

my best guess is that the printer is still referenced in /var/spool/lp/pstatus. It's a binary file. try usings strings on the file and see what you get.

[Reinhardt]

It's in /var/spool/lp/pstatus 3 times, twice by itself and once with our domain name.

[OldSchool]

an admitted long-shot, but try

find . -name "**"

from both /var/spool/lp and /etc/lp

[Reinhardt]

Unfortunately, nothing was found with the find command. I'm assuming at this point that it has something to do with the pstat file.

[Court Campbell]

what happens if you try

# lpadmin -x