Hi all,
CUPS v1.4.2 / RHEL6 (2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64)
I am troubleshooting an incident where a Nagios plugin is complaining about our RHEL6 CUPS having jobs over 3 days old.
I viewed the CUPS job list via the web GUI and see an entry:
Code:
norwich_1-2320765 file0OWG5O root 91k 2 processing since
Sun 20 Apr 2014 04:41:37 PM BST
Huh? Today is the 21st April, that's not 3 days old - so the plugin is dodgy?
I check lpstat on the server's command line with interesting results:
Code:
[root@db2 cups]# lpstat
norwich_1-2320765 root 93184 Fri 18 Apr 2014 12:41:21 AM BST
The job in the spool directory has two files, one timestamped in accordance with what lpstat reports and one **closer** to the CUPS GUI time (at least the same day!):
Code:
[root@db2 cups]# pwd
/var/spool/cups
[root@db2 cups]# ls -lha *2320765*
-rw------- 1 root lp 753 Apr 20 16:42 c2320765
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 91K Apr 18 00:41 d2320765-001
The server's clock is fine:
Code:
[root@db2 cups]# date
Mon Apr 21 16:44:26 BST 2014
I have Googled for any known bugs but have thus far come up with nothing.
We generally have to jump into the CUPS GUI on quite a regular basis to reprint jobs for users and the time-stamping on these is usually very accurate.
Please can someone more familiar with CUPS explain to me what's going on here? Is it behaving incorrectly, or am I just misunderstanding something?
It actually seems like lpstat and the Nagios plugin are correct, but what's the deal with CUPS GUI reporting it otherwise?
Thank you!
Elliot
lpstat job time inconsistent with CUPS
