[SGVLUG] LPD Issues

[Alex Roston]

I have a mostly unattended system that runs lprng to service a printer. 
Unfortunately, the printer the client has provided is very slow and a 
little unreliable. Sometimes the printer queue gets full of jobs that 
won't print for some reason and the system grinds to a halt.

What I want to do is empty the printer queue once a day, or better yet, 
kill only the stuck jobs.

I'm hoping to avoid writing a long script. I can flush the output of 
"lpstat" into a variable, grab the job numbers and cancel them if I have 
to, but that seems like waaay too much work. Does anyone know a better way?

Thanks,

Alex