From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 17:15: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9A937B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED36943E70 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7FNm7uF061163; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:48:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g7FNm7N9061160; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:48:07 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:48:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Parker Brown Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: Runaway lpd In-Reply-To: <3D5C3834.E26E3801@charter.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message