How to requeue print?

[Tony Bennett]

We occasionally have one print queue that gets backed up with over 200
jobs and other print queues idle. Other than changing the queue
definitions, is there an easy way to 'requeue' some of the print jobs to
another print queue.

TIA
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[Varouj Vosguian]

Tony Bennett (to...@teleport.com) wrote:
: We occasionally have one print queue that gets backed up with over 200

: jobs and other print queues idle. Other than changing the queue
: definitions, is there an easy way to 'requeue' some of the print jobs to
: another print queue.

You could use the qdaemon's "one to many" approach on defining virtual
printers. i.e. you first configure the various printer devices e.g.
lp0, lp1 etc. then you define one single virtual printer for all of them.
This way when users send their print requests to that virtual printer, their
job will be processed by the next idle printer device. The printers will
act as oveflow.

There is no nice way to move a print job from one queue to another in AIX
3.2.5. If you use the "copy" option on your print command, then the file
is placed in /usr/spool/qdaemon directory with a cryptic name. So you could
re-issue another print command from there and cancel the initial one.
I find this to be hard, as it would require a manual check of the content
of each file.

AIX 4.x provides new commands for the printing sub-system, the move option
is one of them. (another reason to upgrade?)

Cheers,

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Varouj Vosguian (Var...@Planmatics.com)

[Tony Gast]

In article <3ujiqf$r...@kelly.teleport.com>, to...@teleport.com (Tony Bennett) writes:
|> We occasionally have one print queue that gets backed up with over 200
|> jobs and other print queues idle. Other than changing the queue
|> definitions, is there an easy way to 'requeue' some of the print jobs to
|> another print queue.
|>

You can copy off the files fro /var/spool/qdaemon and /var/spool/lpd, resubmit
them to another queue, and then cancel the old ones. Not very pretty, plus you
lose the original file name, but it works.
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