Thank you
On Saturday 21 December 2002 07:35 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 11:17:11AM -0500, patrick grantham wrote:
> > Some bonehead (me) installed the wrong print driver on a M$ client and
> > sent a test print. I have been unable able to find the print job listed
> > using any GUI to stop to reams of paper being spit out by the printer. I
> > have managed to "kill" the job by it's PID. How is the most effective
> > way to terminating the job and deleting the spooled data?
> >
> > --Patrick
>
> I'm assuming you're trying to kill a print job that's running under the
> Linux print spooler. If so, use:
>
> lpq -Pnameofprinter
>
> (The -Pnameofprinter is optional, if this printer is set up under the
> PRINTER environment variable of the user making the query.) This will
> tell you the job ID of the print job. Then use:
>
> lprm jobid
>
> where jobid is the number you got. This kills the job, and at some point
> should kill the cached data.
>
> And of course, turning off the printer will kill any data stored in
> _its_ memory.
>
> Paul
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