Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 22:21:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It > >keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop > > > > The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost syn

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. > It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop I think someone is playing with your head, and that you need to study up on /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and ho

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost synchronization with the computer for a moment, and gone back to printing in text mo

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use lp

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread MalindaFlores
did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-06 Thread Jason Rennie
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:52:33PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > You could try: > $ ps aux | grep lpr > which will list the process ID > the kill the process, as root or sudo, with: > # kill -9 ProcessID (the number) Or, even simpler: pkill lpr Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

SOLVED Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-05 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
This was the solution. Many thanks to all of you responding!! Cheers Vegard > Hi Vegard > > Sam Watkins suggested: > you can use the programs "lpq" and "lprm" to show the printer queue and > remove jobs from it respectively. > > Look at the man pages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> ps aux | grep [l]pr > >>> > >>> This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", > >>> but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. > >> > >> Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ps aux | grep [l]pr >>> >>> This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", >>> but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. >> >> Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one >> character exactly the same as the character b

Re: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 15:14), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > This is the output of the command > > > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > > > hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr > > > root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > > example: > > > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > > > This still lists all the processes that c

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > example: > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", but > it will not match the grep p

A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > This is the output of the command > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr > > root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684 pts/1R+ 18:03 0:00 grep lpr > > hjem:~# > > > > Is thi

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > >> I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > >> The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > >> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > >> %%Creator: The X Print Server's

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:09:02PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > every time I start my PC the printer start again. you can use the programs "lpq" and "lprm" to show the printer queue and remove jobs from it respectively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) > > I tried deleting the pri