Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:38:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Krauth <stephenk@stephenk.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do you stop printing? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010122237000.278-100000@beelzebub.inside.killermartian.com>
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I tried to cancel a huge print job, with extremely frustrating results.
First mistake: I turned off that printer; that simply made it print single
lines of garbage on each page. Then I tried 'lprm', which claimed to
remove the job; I killed -9 lpd and the accompanying other process for
apsfilter. I unplugged the printer, several times. The *ONLY* thing that
would stop the madness was rebooting freebsd.
What's the deal? Was some device buffer filled by the kernel and simply
unclearable no matter what? How do you stop this?
I'm running FBSD 4.1 attached over /dev/lpt0 to an HP Deskjet 540. lpd
and apsfilter 5.4.2 are involved. The job was printed from acroread4.
Here's my printcap:
lp|aps1-cdjmono-letter-auto-default|Printer1 cdjmono letter auto default:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-cdjmono-letter-auto-default:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-cdjmono-letter-auto-default/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-cdjmono-letter-auto-default/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps1-cdjmono-letter-auto-default:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
raw|aps2-cdjmono-letter-raw|Printer1 cdjmono letter raw:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-cdjmono-letter-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-cdjmono-letter-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-cdjmono-letter-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps2-cdjmono-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sf:\
:sh:
Thanks...
Steve K. U.F.O. - "For the feeler gauge in you."
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