print queues don't empty

[yawe]

the spooler on my server is not clearing its queue. the scheduler is up and all printers are enabled.

i noticed that there is a sleep 20 that is invoked whenever the lp command is issued. when u kill the related pid for a job, it will print.

how do i stop the sleep from starting up?

Waiting to hear from people out there..

[Coolmar]

Hi,

CHeck out this thread...alot of good troubleshooting advice in here that may help you with your problem:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1086765

[yawe]

I read through the link you sent but none of them could solve the issue. the print job still sits in the queue.

the lp initiates a sleep 20 process which i presume is holding the job. when u kill the sleep process, the job is lost.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
has somebody replaced the lp command with their own version, which includes a sleep command ?

Check with:
what `which lp`
and
file `which lp`

should be a executable at /usr/bin/lp.