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

[Shibu George P]

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

[Mel Burslan]

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 ?

[Mel Burslan]

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.

[Shibu George P]

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

[Shibu George P]

I changed the permission to 754. Still the problem persists

[Dennis Handly]

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

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

[Bill Hassell]

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.