Summary: Printing - tmp files stay and fill up disks

Peter Allott (Peter@essex.ac.uk)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:54:27 +0000

I asked;

> " I am not too familiar with Solaris 2 so the question may well be
> trivial.
>
> It appears that the files stay in /var/spool/lp/serultra0 (serultra0
> -
> is the machine name) after the job has been processed.
>
> This take up disk space and results in the disk becoming completely
> full
> and users being unable to print,
>
> All are printers are actually on BSD machines. I have also found that
> if
> you do a /usr/ucb/lpq -Pprinter for the printer
> to which the job was sent then the tmp files go away.
>
> What have I got incorrectly configured? "
>
> I got an "official" answer from SUN hotline - "Check you have the
> latest jumbo lp patch installed" and edit /etc/lp/System
> to reduce the number of jobs before polling.
>
> I don't think I can give full details as I imagine SUN have a
> copyright on the text. It appears to be SRDB ID: 12588
>