[wplug] Too busy printing?

[Brian A. Seklecki]

Kill CUPS:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups stop

Or:

$ lpstat -s
system default destination: HP1000
device for Deadset: ipp://deadset:631/printers/InvoicePrinter
device for HP1000: smb://LITTLE-CHINA/lithium.priv.initzer0.com/HP_1000


$ lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: HP1000
device for Deadset: ipp://deadset:631/printers/InvoicePrinter
device for HP1000: smb://LITTLE-CHINA/lithium.priv.initzer0.com/HP_1000
Deadset accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
HP1000 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
printer Deadset is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer HP1000 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00


Check the man pages for lpstat(1), lp(1), lpr(1), cupsd(8), disable(8),
enable(8), cancel(8)

~BAS


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:44, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> A month ago our home PC mercifully committed harddrive suicide and took its
> M$ operating system with it.   A new drive and Fedora Core 3 got us back up
> and running quickly.  Everything has worked great for a few weeks.  The wife
> quickly adapted to FireFox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice.
> 
> Then this weekend we attempted to print an email attachment (from Borders).
> It printed fine.  And then it printed again.  And then the PC just started
> banging away at the harddrive.  I could not get control to find out what was
> running.  I had to turn the PC off and reboot.  A couple of seconds after
> logging back in as the user the printer prints the email and lock-up.  If I
> am quick I can get a terminal window open which prevents the harddrive
> accesses.  The printer queue was empty and I could not identify any task
> that would cause this problem.  I un-installed the printer and it appears to
> be o.k. now.
> 
> Other than the "lp" commands is there anyway of tracking what the printer is
> doing?  If the PC is busy 100% on some task is there a way to break the
> operation, equivalent to the three finger salute?  I want to reinstall the
> printer but am concerned that it will start up this cycle again.
> 
> -laweber
> 
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