Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-23 Thread Gregor Maier
On 22-Aug-2001 J. C. Woods wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: On 22 Aug 01, at 22:04, DStevenson wrote: 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. Nope. cancel is the same as

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread D. R. Evans
The same thing has happened again, this time caused by the printer running out of toner partway through a big job. So I have done an lprm. I have used the web interface and told the printer to STOP. I have cycled power on the printer. I have told the admin interface to REJECT all jobs. And

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread DStevenson
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

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread D. R. Evans
On 22 Aug 01, at 22:04, DStevenson wrote: 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. Nope. cancel is the same as lprm, and that's the first thing I always try, in the forlorn

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread jipe
D. R. Evans wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On 22 Aug 01, at 22:04, DStevenson wrote: On the machine with the pinter attached: lpq - to show what jobs are in the queue cancel [job id] - to kill the jobAlways works for me. Nope. "cancel" is the same as "lprm", and that's

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Ivanov
On 23 August 2001 01:49, you wrote: 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. Nope. cancel is the same as lprm, and that's the first thing I always try, in the forlorn hope that

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread D. R. Evans
On 22 Aug 01, at 23:49, jipe wrote: what's the size of the buffer of your printer? i don't think that lprm can empty it! by No. But powering the printer down and then back up sure does. And then it immediately gets filled again because the Linux box keeps throwing stuff out /dev/lp0

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread J. C. Woods
D. R. Evans wrote: On 22 Aug 01, at 22:04, DStevenson wrote: 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. Nope. cancel is the same as lprm, and that's the first thing I

[expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-08 Thread D. R. Evans
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

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-08 Thread J. C. Woods
Robin Ballantine wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 1:47 pm, you 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