I don't know about cancel (not on my system). There is however lprm. $ whatis lprm lprm (1) - remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:29:41PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > Hey I had to print something today (I never print... ) and I just hooked up a > printer (no bother configuing it or anything..) and printed something. well.. > ofcourse it sent postscript stuff to the printer, and I realized that I dont > know how to kill a print job! sigh... I turned off the printer and did man > pages on lp, lpr, lpq. I could view whats in the queue with lpq -a, but didnt > find any info in the man pages about killing a print job. so I searched the > net and found it was sooo easy (once you know...) it was embarassing! > for those of you that havnt tried.... this is what you do. > lpq -a (to list print jobs) > cancel <jobid> (this is the id number listed in lpq -a) > > I love this linux thing... its pretty cool :) > > Jamie > > -- > for setting/changing your eug-lug mailinglist subscription use this website: > http://wWw.RockSolidNetworks.com/eug-lug.html > no microsoft products were used to produce this message. > _______________________________________________ > Eug-lug mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-lug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
