[Samba] samba spool problem...

[Steve Jen]

Hi all,
I just realized that the samba print spool is no longer flushing its 
queue'd print jobs even after it's been printed. In other words, the 
spool will eventually get full during which no jobs can be spooled and 
printed anymore.  I worked around the problem and inserted the -r 
 option to lpr for the print command in smb.conf:

/usr/local/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s

That seems to have the print job spooled and removed real quickly at the 
same time and I get the printout just fine without the print job still 
sitting on the print spool taking up space. My question to all is what 
your workaround is or is this the best way to deal with it? I read from 
some samba sites that with the -r option it will print then remove the 
original files! That's absolutely not happening to me (tested many 
times) and I highly doubt that. I think it just removes the files from 
the spooler and not the original directory...

Lastly, I'd like to find out the root cause of this problem. If I can 
get a reolution for the root cause hopefully everybody can learn from 
it. Any help is greatly appreciated...thanks in advance...

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Steve Jen              
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