Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 04:00:02 -0800 (PST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2139: /usr/sbin/lpc cannot clean queues Message-ID: <199612071200.EAA23143@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2139; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: nate@mt.sri.com
Cc: ted@emerald.plymouth.edu, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2139: /usr/sbin/lpc cannot clean queues
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:44:24 +0100 (MET)
As Nate Williams wrote:
> Apparently, lpc is doing the 'documented' feature. From the manpage:
>
> clean { all | printer }
> Remove any temporary files, data files, and control files that
> cannot be printed (i.e., do not form a complete printer job) from
> the specified printer queue(s) on the local machine.
>
> So, it won't 'clean' any jobs that are complete. From my memory, older
> BSD implementations had 'clean' wiping out everything.
>
> In any case, I prefer the latter vs. the current implementation, but I'm
> not going to shove it into our tree w/out further support.
Perhaps the man page should hint that ``lprm [-Pprinter] -'', executed
by the superuser, cleans all complete jobs.
--
cheers, J"org
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