On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, IRoKd wrote:
Hi IRoKd
>While by far am I the Linux expert, I would say that you experience some
>kind of buffer over run or something in your printer. Before killing the
>spool, I would turn the printer offline, then power it off to clear the
>buffer. Then, kill all the jobs, reset the spooler, etc, and fire the
>printer back up to see what happens.
The trick question now (because I did almost all of that):
how do you reset the spooler...
But, next time I pull a stunt like that, I can see if Alan's tip re. kups
will do anything. I ran lpq, saw that job 11 was going whopee, issued a
"cancel 11", and then lpq showed a clear queue. That is not difficult. I
only need the info on "reset the spooler".
kill -sighup ???
(might that be the pid of cupsd ?)
Paul
>----- Original Message -----
>> I accidentally sent a wrong print to the printer, and it went nuts
>> printing all kinds of garbage without end.
>>
>> I could not find any way to stop this but to reboot the entire system (how
>> low can one go)...
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