topic Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer in Operating System - HP-UX

/usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Shibu George P — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:21:03 GMT

Does anyone have an idea on how to resolve the following error related to printer request id allocation?
/usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer:cabs_label1
The current workaround, I’ve resorted to is running the following command every 6hrs through cron.
cat /dev/null > /var/spool/lp/seqfile

Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Mel Burslan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:27:24 GMT

What you are doing sounds like band-aid solution to a huge wound. Do you have any idea why the request id's getting depleted so often. Is the printer queue stuck with a lot of jobs pending it it ?

Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Mel Burslan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:33:34 GMT

oops, too fast of a finger I have.. I also meant to say, did you check the permissions and ownership of the /var/spool/lp/seqfile ? it usually have owner and group both set to lp and permission is 644.

Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Shibu George P — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:42:00 GMT

The current permission is
-rwxr-x--- 1 lp lp 4 Jun 22 16:37 /var/spool/lp/seqfile

Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Shibu George P — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:53:17 GMT

I changed the permission to 754. Still the problem persists

Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Dennis Handly — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:55:44 GMT

>The current permission is: -rwxr-x--- 1 lp lp seqfile

Data files shouldn't be executable. Use "chmod a-x seqfile".

Re: /usr/bin/lp: request ids exhausted for printer

Bill Hassell — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:44:49 GMT

Perhaps some has been playing around with permissions and ownerships. Run swverify:

swverify PrinterMgmt

Other than the man pages, correct the permission and ownership errors.