From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 8:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630B37B699 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from d.tracker ([207.245.46.183]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id JAA05411; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:10:38 -0700 (MST) Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA35072; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:09:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:07:28 -0500 From: David Banning To: Corvette Cc: Tony Wells , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: killing print command Message-ID: <20010124110728.A35011@www3.pacific-pages.com> Reply-To: David Banning References: <200101231646.LAA15027@d.tracker> <3A6DBD54.70F41BD0@journalstar.com> <20010124113543.K46467@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010124113543.K46467@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@iconnect.co.ke on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:35:43AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the response. I'll try "lpc clean all" next time, if that doesn't work, I'll unplug and re-plug the printer in. On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:35:43AM +0300, Corvette wrote: > * Tony Wells [20010123 20:21]: writing on the subject 'Re: killing print command' > Tony> I'm guessing it's buffer memory in the printer that keeps re-issuing > Tony> the job. Turning off the printer from the switch might not do the > Tony> trick, try unplugging it so the printer actually loses power. > Tony> > Tony> David Banning wrote: > Tony> > > Tony> > I have printed something. Now I don't want it to print. > Tony> > There is nothing listed with "lpq" > Tony> > There is no print job number to issue with "lprm" > Tony> > I keep turning my printer off. When it resets, it starts printing again. > Tony> > > Tony> > There must be some kind of buffer in the computer memory, behind the scenes > Tony> > feeding this stuff to the printer. > Tony> > > Tony> > Any way to just kill it? > > man lpc > > Or try flushing the printer memory by sending another print job, > like echo "TEST TEST TERSE" | lpr and see if that shows with lpq > Better still unplug the printer from the computer, power it down > then plug back again. > > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., > wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza > Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., > Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. > > Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before > it is understood. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message