On the machine with the pinter attached:
lpq - to show what jobs are in the queue
cancel [job id] - to kill the job
Always works for me.
Dave
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 13:47, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Argh!
>
> I am running LM 7.2 with CUPS enabled.
>
> My printer somehow got confused and I powered it down and back on. But
> the Linux box is sending it garbage (presumably because it is in the
> middle of sending a file).
>
> I did an lprm, expecting that to clear everything. The status reports
> say that the queue is empty, but as soon as I power up the printer, the
> LEDs flash to indicate that it is receiving data from the computer, and
> it goes back to printing rubbish.
>
> How do I REALLY empty the print queue???
>
> Doc Evans (drowning in a sea of nearly-blank sheets of paper)
>
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