HPUX : NOT ABLE TO DELETE THE QUEUE.

Issue : Printer queue on the server not able to delete it.

Error :

#-> cancel OCDRL0029

cancel: printer "OCDRL0029" was not busy

[root@ MARS:/.root]#

#-> lpadmin -xOCDRL0029

lpadmin: requests still queued for "OCDRL0029" -- use lpmove

[root@ MARS:/.root]#

#-> reject OCDRL0029

destination "OCDRL0029" will no longer accept requests

[root@ MARS:/.root]#

#-> lpadmin -xOCDRL0029

lpadmin: requests still queued for "OCDRL0029" -- use lpmove

Cause : Print job on the printer

#-> lpstat -oOCDRL0029

OCDRL0029-8990      rpuadm         priority 0  Aug  5 07:40

        00Hr9iE5.RPU                         5688 bytes

OCDRL0029-4805      rpuadm         priority 0  Aug  8 08:47

        00JI3SWf.RPU                         4350 bytes

OCDRL0029-6057      rpuadm         priority 0  Aug  8 10:59

        00JNrp7R.RPU                        24393 bytes

Need to cancel the pending job before deletion of the queue.

[root@ MARS:/.root]#

#-> cancel -e OCDRL0029

request "OCDRL0029-8990" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-4805" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-6057" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-6088" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-6144" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-2223" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-2244" cancelled

request "OCDRL0029-7754" cancelled

#-> lpadmin -xOCDRL0029

[root@MARS:/.root]#

Recommendation : cancel the pending job and then try to delete the queue.