purge print ueue in FC2?

Brian Richardson brian at cubik.ca
Mon Nov 15 03:27:14 UTC 2004


On 14-Nov-04, at 2:30 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:

> I installed two printer drivers and mistakenly sent a .pdf to the 
> wrong queue.
> I have tried the print manager and no job shows up in the queue for 
> that
> printer, but I get nothing but ascii giibberish on the page. I have 
> cycled
> power on the printer and cpu but still get nonsensical output, from 
> which I
> conclude that there is some data spooled somewhere. Is there a command 
> to
> investigate this further? Or purge effectively?

If you are talking about lpd print queues, lpq(1) and lprm(1) should 
help. I don't know how to examine/clear SMB print queues.

Brian
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