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I have just finished rebuilding a primary print server which used to run
quite well with a combination of HP's jetadmin / Solaris 7 (Sparc) / and
samba to allow mapping from wintel clients.  This runs perfectly (as it
used to!) apart from one thing - the spool directory keeps on filling up
with all of the print jobs.  The standard lp command being issued by samba
is of the form:

 lp -c -d<printqueuename> <printjob>; rm <printjob>.  

The -c option from lp is a directive to copy the printjob to the spool
directory as a failsafe mechanism; the rm command is supposed to eliminate
it the printjob after the directive to print is complete.  Removing the -c
option completely seems to have no effect (ie for whatever reason the
system doesn't seem to be paying too much attention to the actual print
command being invoked by samba - the job still turns up copied into the
spool directory).

Anyone with any clues?

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Dave

Are you sure you're not using HP's Jetdirect software?

I've seen instances where, for unknown reasons, the Jetadmin
interface script exits with a failure code even though the
print job prints fine.  The Solaris print software thinks the
job didn't print, so it keeps re-trying.

  -Greg
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lp -c -d<printername> <printjob>; rm <printjob>  
(issued by the default user nobody)

is still leaving a copy of the printjob within the /tmp directory (also
default).  Maybe I should have directed this more at a samba newsgroup?

Any solutions _greatly_ appreciated,

Easter!

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DGG> Depending if you are running System 5 printing or BSD, try using
lpr
DGG> rather than lp. I believe that under System 5, lpr does not make a
DGG> copy of the file.

Finally (sigh) this has been fixed after a while, don't know the
patch id, but it's usually in those lp jumbo patches.

Uwe