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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:48:07 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
Cc:        BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Runaway lpd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208151742550.61116-100000@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D5C3834.E26E3801@charter.net>

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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Parker Brown wrote:

> Is there a sure fire way to stop a runaway printer?

You can turn the printer off.  Some printers are so determined to print
whatever's in their buffer memory that this is the only way to clear
them.  The newer HP lasers have a Cancel Job button, but it doesn't take
effect until many pages too late.  Cancel Job should say "Are you
sure?" and if you hit it again, it stops after the presently-printing
page is done.

> I've tried every thing I could think of with the lpc command, but no luck.

You can try "lprm -Plp -" although that probably won't kill the current
job.  You may have to kill lpd.  A kill -HUP would be nice, but lpd just
exits when I do that (as of 4.4, haven't tried it on a 4.6 system).

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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