[SAMBA] spool dir

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Matt Lung wrote:

> hello,
> 
> I'm having a problem with print files not being deleted out of 
> /var/spool/samba directory after a print job completes.  
> 
> Right now I am running RedHat 7.3, Samba 2.2.5 with CUPS 1.1.14 as my
> printing system.  I was under the impression that after the job
> completed Samba was suppose to remove the job from that spool directory.

If you are using anything but CUPS, you have to delete this manually.

>  Right now it just grows and grows until I have to delete all the files 
> from there.  Isn't Samba suppose  to get rid of all those???

This was a bug in the Samba/CUPS interaction in 2.2.5.  Will be fixed in 
the upcomign 2.2.6 release.




cheers, jerry
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