Re: Printer problems

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:05, Alice E. Peters wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> Yes, I had a great time in Hong Kong. It was the hottest week of the year, though, and hotter than normal. But we all made it with no health problems! Thanks for asking.
> 
> With lprm I got the response "Unable to cancel job(s)!"
> 
> The lpq command prompt listed all the jobs. I highlighted and tried to delete them, but it would not work. How can I do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Alice
> 

With lpq you'll probably get the owner of the job as well in the
listing. If the job owner isn't you then your user won't have
permissions to remove the jobs. However, switching user to root (with
the su - command) will probably do the trick. Try executing:

su -

and then:

lprm

from a terminal command prompt and see if that doesn't do it.

Steve