[Samba] Odd LPQ behavior in 3.0.x

[Ryan Novosielski]

I changed the 'lpq cache time' parameter to 5 (from the default) and the 
problem seems to have gone away. The status (Paused/Printing, or nothing 
for jobs that are queued) has returned. However, now the Pages are all N/A 
(as it was before I upgraded), and the size field is back (but static). 
The port field is blank...

Before changing this parameter, as I noted below, Status was missing, but 
pages was listed (and dynamic) as was size (same). Now I only get this on 
incoming jobs (jobs with a "Spooling" status). I'm curious if there is any 
good documentation on how to expect this to work... the printing stuff 
doesn't cover this particular part of it too much.

I will apply the patch and let you know -- Samba has been segfaulting 
somewhat too on 3.0.9, so I'm hoping this will cure that as well.

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> | Here is what I'm seeing after upgrading to 3.0.x:
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> | 1) Jobs no longer properly report their status, using
> | LPRng's lpq. I see, instead, no listing for status and a
> | listing for number of pages in  the job. While that
> | is also useful information, it does not allow me to
> | act on jobs as I'd like to (resume/pause/etc).
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> You should see page count changes and size changes.
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> |
> | 2) Basically EVERY job that has ever printed via Samba
> | on that printer since I've upgraded is listed in the queue.
> | This is not a case of  lpd_done_jobs in LPRng causing this
> | -- the jobs are NOT there in lpq. If  the
> | queue is empty in LPRng, there will still be hundreds
> | of jobs listed in the Windows queue.
>
> This one should be mostly fixed by 3.0.9 + the printing-3-0-9.patch
> found in http://samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.9/
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> cheers, jerry
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