HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 289

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Deleting Objects Contained in Spoolers

You must allow the jobs to complete processing, remove the jobs, or

resubmit the jobs before you can delete the queue. See “Deleting Jobs

from Queues and from the Spooler” and “Resubmitting Jobs to

Different Logical Printers” earlier for the commands to use. Also see

below.

2. All logical printers associated with the queue must be disabled. See

below.

To delete the queue Queue1, enter:

pddelete -c queue Queue1

Deleting a Queue that Contains Pending Jobs

If all of the jobs in the queue are pending, perform the following steps to

let the jobs print and then delete the queue:

1. Determine the states of the jobs in a queue that receives jobs from

logical printers. For example:

pdq -U -p LogPrt3

If all jobs are in the pending state, continue with this procedure. If

the queue contains jobs in the held or paused state, continue with

step 2 of the next section.

2. Disable all of the logical printers associated with the queue. For

example:

pddisable -c queue Queue3

All of the logical printers associated with Queue3 will be disabled and

will not accept new jobs.

3. Wait until all jobs in the queue are scheduled and have been sent to

physical printers.

4. Delete the queue. For example:

pddelete -c queue Queue3

Deleting a Queue that Contains Held or Paused Jobs

For jobs in the queue that are in the held or paused state, you must

perform other tasks so that the jobs will print before you delete the

queue. For example, if the job is paused, resume the job with the

pdresume command. If the job is held, determine the reason the job is

held and perform any actions required. For example, the job might be