From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 01:57:50 2005 Return-Path: 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 6938C16A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:57:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08D643D3F for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:57:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139F460E7; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65838-06; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:46 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A5360E4; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:45 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <423CD89F.6020304@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:51 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Agee References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer gone beszerk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:57:50 -0000 Karl Agee wrote: > FreeBSD 4.11-Stable. My printer has gone beszerk.......and, I cant > clear the queue. > > Here is some output: > > bash-2.05b$ lpq -P hp > Warning: unable to get address list for remote machine : No address > associated with hostname > Warning: no daemon present > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > 1st kdagee 0 (standard input) 145143 bytes > 2nd kdagee 1 (standard input) 74513 bytes > 3rd kdagee 2 (standard input) 967543 bytes > 4th kdagee 3 (standard input) 406428 bytes > bash-2.05b$ lprm - > lprm: getprintcap: printer not found > > bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/printcap > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the > # /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file > # will be lost. > hp|hp:rm=:rp=hp: > > This is a local printer on lp0. I set it up using apsfilter, and I dont > use cups. > > I want to delete these jobs but dont know what else to do. > > --Karl > 1. killall lpd 2. cd /var/spool/lpd/lp 3. rm *.com 4. look into /var/spool/output and do the same as above 5. reset the printer 6. lpd 7. Drink beer. -- Best regards, Chris If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.