[K12OSN] Printer resetting

[Doug Simpson]

This rarely works.  I have to actually use webmin, stop the schedular, 
empty /var/spool/cups, service restart cups and service restart smb and 
then it may work.

Many times it doesn't unless I fool with it for a while. . .

I actually haven't nailed it down to what actually does get it working 
again.  Sometimes it will not work for one or two but the rest are fine. 
Sometimes they all work fine.

Printers are just voodoo-science . . .


Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
Classified Know-Nothing
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 cisna-barry at wc235.k12.il.us wrote:

> Doug,
>
> I have good luck simply doing a ,in a terminal, " service cups restart "(
> as root). This seems to "revitalize" any stuck/zombied/braindead printer.
> Also ,I like "pictures". Use "http://localhost:631" in your web browser
> address bar, to get to your cups web GUI,and rifle through it and see what
> appears to be "stopped".. This has helped me immensly,with printer hang
> ups.
> I'm sure there is a more concise way of viewing printer ques to be more
> "scientific" about things,but i tend to get rough with things to get them
> cured.:)
> Take Care,
>
> Barry Cisna
> westcentral school
>
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