(printer not stopping)

[Stephe Ray Badgett]

in sam trying to remove a printer ...

A problem occurred doing "lpadmin -dlinelj". Stderr from this command is "/usr/sbin/lpadmin: can't open system default destination file".
Unable to make the default destination printer "linelj" because of
above error(s).

and second problem is

a print job keeps printing every minute never stops printing

Steve

[Rajeev Shukla · Accepted solution]

to remove the printer use
#lpshut
#lpadmin -xlinelj (note no space after x)
#lpsched

for second problem..check the print queue for that spooler using
lpstat
is nothing in the queue, then disable/enable the printer and power cycle the printer which should clear everything in buffer.
If the printer still spits out prints then it could be some application printing that..

And yes you could check who is doing this by disabling the print queue and check after a while whats in the queue and who is printing using lpstat..you can check the jobs in /var/spool/lp/request/

[Peter Godron]

Steve,
if you do want to remove printer via SAM, check:
# ll /var/spool/lp/default
-rw-r--r-- 1 lp lp 12 Nov 17 2003 /var/spool/lp/default

[Stephe Ray Badgett]

Thank you for your help ---


what is happining is the request/linlj/files this directory does not not get emptied and I have to do a cancel linelj_## to remove it from the queue or it will end up reprinting the files. What would cause the spooler not to remove the entry?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I think we need to disable True_End_Of_Job.

Cancal any existing jobs for this printer.

cd /var/spool/lp/interface
edit linelj and look for a line
TEOJ="XXX" (where XXX is anything)
and replace it with
TEOJ=""
and save the file.

[Stephe Ray Badgett]

Thank you all

Clay Stephenson -- perfect -- this fixed the problem

Thank you all
Steve

[Stephe Ray Badgett]

A. Clay Stephenson -- had the right answer and not problem printing now :)

Steve