How to automatically cancel "stuck" print jobs in RHEL
Issue
A print job was held in a "processing" state until CUPS was restarted with no information on why. This caused our print jobs to fill the /var/spool/cups volume and resulted in the loss of the entire print run. We need a way to ensure that jobs do not stay in a "processing" state indefinitely.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.4.2 and 1.6.3
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