HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

288 Chapter9

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Deleting Objects Contained in Spoolers

This section describes how to delete the logical printers, queues, and

initial value objects contained in a spooler.

Deleting a Logical Printer

Disable the logical printer before you delete it. Disabling the logical

printer prevents it from accepting new jobs; modiﬁcations to jobs that the

logical printer has sent to the queue can still be made as necessary. See

“Disabling a Logical Printer” earlier to disable a logical printer.

To delete the logical printer LogPrt3, enter:

pddelete LogPrt3

HPDPS displays a conﬁrmation message. After you respond

afﬁrmatively to the conﬁrmation message, HPDPS deletes the logical

printer.

NOTE If you do not allow jobs sent to the queue by the logical printer to

complete processing before you delete the logical printer, you and the

users who submitted the jobs cannot make modiﬁcations to the jobs in

the queue after you delete the logical printer. You must resubmit the jobs

to a different logical printer or remove the jobs from the queue before

they can be modiﬁed. See “Resubmitting Jobs to Different Logical

Printers” and “Deleting Jobs from Queues and from the Spooler” earlier

for further information.

If the value of the PD_CONFIRM_DELETE environment variable is no, you

will not receive a conﬁrmation message. See “Setting the

PD_CONFIRM_DELETE Environment Variable” in Chapter 4.

Deleting a Queue

Before you can delete a queue, the following two conditions must be met:

1. The queue cannot contain any jobs.