RedHat 9 - CUPS How to "move" a print job

[jsteff]

The print jobs are stacked in a queue waiting for the printer. The printer breaks.

I can see the job using "lpstat -t". At this point, I want to transfer (move) the job from the broken printer and assign it to a working printer.

In AIX we did this with "lpmove". It appears that the command lpmove is not part of the CUPS utility.

How can i move an existing print job to another printer?

 

[jaymzter]

SYNOPSIS
lpmove [ -E ] job destination

DESCRIPTION
lpmove moves the specified job to destination. job can be the job
ID number or the old destination and job ID:

lpmove 123 newprinter
lpmove oldprinter-123 newprinter

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[RhythmAce]

I don't think that lpmove is compatible with cups. Have you tried this?

http://localhost:631

 

[jaymzter]

lpmove is part of the cups installation. it's the only print system on my linuxfromscratch system

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[jsteff]

Rhythm..... I agree. By reading the docs, it seems that
lpmove is NOT a part of CUPS on a Redhat9 box. If that is the case, what would you do to perform the same function as an lpmove?

 

[jaymzter]

you guys know better than I do about what's installed on your system, but according to this Red Hat page lpmove should be included

http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/cups-1.1.17-13.i386_fl.html

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[RhythmAce]

I run fedora core 2 which seems to have gotten rid of lpd but I wonder if you switched to that, then tried lpmove if it would work?

 

[ericbrunson]

Youse guyz are krazy

charlie(~)$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
charlie(~)$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/lpmove
cups-1.1.20-11.1

lpmove is definitely part of cups.