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Troubleshooting the Base Operating System Spooler
they are out of paper, fix the problem and see if the printers begin printing. If they do not
begin printing, again use the lpstat command to see if the queue status is RUNNING. In
any of these circumstances, the purpose of checking the printers is to verify that at least one
printer is actually printing even though the qdaemon is not starting new jobs.
Now submit a new job to the spooler with the command enq –Pasc /etc/motd.
Use the lpstat command to examine the queue status. If the new job has a job number of
NEW, then the qdaemon is, for some reason, focused on running other jobs and will not
start any new jobs until the current jobs are complete. You can only wait. You can not even
cancel the jobs that are running Job cancellation requests are jobs as well, and the
qdaemon is not taking new jobs.