CUPS JobRetryInterval is 5 minutes in RHEL

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The CUPS documentation says that the default value for JobRetryInterval is 30 seconds, but jobs are being held for 5 minutes before being retried with the following message in the CUPS Error Log:

I [19/Apr/2021:15:39:19 +0930] [Job 184228] Job held for 300 seconds since it could not be sent.

Environment

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

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