Jobs sent to print queue with /dev/null Device URI stay in queue

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Issue

Print jobs to nullprint queue are getting queued up and not processed:

# lpstat -v |grep nullprint
device for nullprint: /dev/null

# lpstat  -p nullprint
printer nullprint disabled since Tue 07 Apr 2020 10:21:49 AM AWST -
    Backend /usr/lib64/cups/backend//dev/null does not exist!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

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