HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 11 359
Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Determining Job States and Job Status
NOTE Jobs are in the job states cancelled, preprocessing, and terminating
for only a very short time. You will almost never see them as values for
the current-job-state attribute. You might see them as values for the
previous-job-state attribute.
Refer to “About Server Communications” in Chapter 9 for a description of
how the spooler and supervisor communicate. The unknown and
timed-out job states are related to communication problems between
the two servers.
job-state-reasons
Table 11-5 describes the values for the job-state-reasons attribute
that report the reason for the current state of the job.
Table 11-5 Descriptions of job-state-reasons
job-state-reasons Description
aborted-by-system The server aborted the job.
cancelled-by-operator An operator or system administrator cancelled
the job.
cancelled-by-user The person who submitted the job cancelled the
job.
completed-with-errors The job printed with errors.
completed-with-warnings The job printed with warnings.
job-hold-set The job is in a queue and the job-hold
attribute of the job is set to true.
job-print-after-specified The job is in a queue and the
job-print-after attribute has been set to a
time that has not yet occurred.