[SAMBA] spool dir

Mac dmccann at nibsc.ac.uk
Thu Sep 26 16:59:00 GMT 2002


>From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
>To: Matt Lung <matt.lung at midwest-tool.com>
>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [SAMBA] spool dir
>> 
>> 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.


For non-CUPS, this is often achieved by using the following (or something
similar) in smb.conf

	 print command = lpr -r -P%p %s  
	 print command = lpr  -P%p %s  ; rm %s ;



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