If you have a Unix queue name that is long, your job id's may be cut off in the list. So you will be trying to troubleshoot/cancel jobs with "not-found" messages.
lpstat output. Note all job id’s cut off…
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Correct job id’s shown with a short script. Script below is self explanatory:
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~/scripts# python check_spool.py
Listing LP spool job id's
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# cat check_spool.py
from os import listdir,path
from os.path import isfile, join
print "Listing LP spool job id's"
spoolpath='/var/spool/lp/requests/localhost/'
onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir(spoolpath) if isfile(join(spoolpath, f))]
for f in onlyfiles:
fname = path.abspath(spoolpath + f)
with open(fname) as spoolfile:
lines = spoolfile.readlines()
print lines[0].strip()