On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Olivier Esser wrote: > Hello, > > I cannot remove printing jobs I have submited. lprm apparently dequeued > the job (after having lprm'ed the job, lpq reports that there is nothing > anymore in the queue) but the printer continue to print. Turning off and > on the printer does not solve the problem. Does anyone can help me. > > I've got Debian 2.2r4 and I use a local printer (HP Deskjet 815) locally > connected to the port /dev/lp0 which I have setup up with > magicfilterconfig (with the dj550c filter). I use the BSD lpr package.
That sounds odd and it _is_ odd, even reboot won't help:) I can just think on brute force: 1) cd to your spooldir (refer to the :sd= entry in your /etc/printcap) 2) stop the lpd (always be nice to others:) 3) rm -f ?f* files (you may be root to do that) 4) restart the lpd there may be better ways but i dont know ... -- gk
