Re: Printer problems

Dylan Reinhardt <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:52:23 -0700

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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:50:19 -0700, Alice E. Peters
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I switched from user to root in a terminal. However, the lprm command did not 
> do anything. The lpq command brought up the printer jobs, but I could not delete them. 
> Am I trying the wrong way? I highlight, then press delete. Obviously, that's not working.


This command should delete *all* spooled print jobs:

lprm -

You'll probably need to su to root first for this to work.

HTH,

Dylan