Does deleting a printer from JetAdmin kill all print jobs in queue ?

[Mark Blonde]

Hello All,
If you do a lpstat -o and you see 10 print jobs and you decide to go ahead and delete a couple of printers from Jetadmin (not the ones that are being printed to at the momemt, but ones that are no longer used) Does that kill the 10 print jobs (ie the users will have to re-submit them) or does jetadmin simply do a lpshut and an lpsched and all the print jobs will be re-added to the queue.

Please let me know about this ?

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark

If you delete a printer from jetadmin it will shut the spooler and restart it , it wont effect queue at all unless you are deleteing the printer having requests , that also will prompt you to cancel the reuest and tehn shut the spooler and then remove the printer.


Manoj Srivastava

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

Don't worry. The jobs won't be deleted.
Jetadmin stop the spooler and restart it.


Fr??d??ric

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Mark,

Deleting a printer where there are no jobs queued to this printer will not affect the queue for the other printers. If there are jobs queued for the printer you want to remove, you have to either move them to another printer (lpmove) or you have cancel those print jobs. Then only you can remove the printer. One printer removal or addition will should not affect the queue of other printer other than a lp scheduler stop and restart.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[S.K. Chan]

This would not affect the other active printers. Otherwise it'll be too much work to do before we can simply delete a printer from the queue. However you might see (especially true for old printer that does not support PJL) keep continuing to print the same file until you stop it. This may not be your case but it has happened to me.