From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 16:24:50 2002 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 471B637B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBD343E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [24.205.254.208] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 77941793 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:24:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3D5C3834.E26E3801@charter.net> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:24:36 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSDQuestions Subject: Runaway lpd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a sure fire way to stop a runaway printer? I've tried every thing I could think of with the lpc command, but no luck. Once I fed a HUGH file to lp. Once I realized what I had done, I tried to cancel the print. lpc (as root) said it had emptied all the queues, but the printer wouldn't stop. I had to just let it keep going until it was "satisfied." This meant feeding the same fifty something sheets back into the printer (to save wasted paper), and I was actually releived when my black ink cartridge ran out of ink during the process. Now I tried to test what apsfilter has done by feeding a JPEG image to lpr. Wrong. It's apparently in a loop printing one or two lines of garbage at a time, and then starting the process over again. And agaim. lpc thinks the queues are empty, but the daemon is aroused. This time, rather than disabling the printer, I just turned it off. Well, this way I've only lost about forty sheets of paper and saving both ink cartridges, but I would like to be able to turn the printer back on without fear. How can I satisfy lpd? Pb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message