From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 16:44:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A685F14E81 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wji@ihug.co.nz) Received: from ihug.co.nz (p54-tnt2.akl.ihug.co.nz [203.109.245.54]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id LAA19910 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:44:43 +1200 Message-ID: <37BDEEC4.5B545B02@ihug.co.nz> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:11:48 +1200 From: William James Irwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Can't flush printer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi A quick question: My printing system consists of lpd and apsfilter. I tried to cancel a print job with lprm. The job was dequed but the printer continued printing. Assuming the job was still in the printer's buffer, I turned the printer off. However when I turned the printer back on it was still printing. To rule out lpd I killed the lpd daemon, the printer was still printing. I then suspected the parallel port driver. I tried '> /dev/lpt0' I got a 'device busy' error. As a last resort I was fiddling with lptcontrol which only returns 'open: device busy' messages. So the printer is still printing and I have no idea how to stop it short of letting it finish (not an option) or rebooting the machine. So what gives? Thanks for your time Regards, -- William James Irwin wji@ihug.co.nz wirw002@cs.auckland.ac.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message