print queue

Thad Nielsen paroikos at myrealbox.com
Fri Apr 28 23:59:36 UTC 2006


G Rajesh [ganesanrajesh at gmail.com] wrote:
> Hello,
> I have three computers and two printers at my office (SOHO, okay).
> Suppose I chose wrong printer, I am not able to delete the print job
> permanently. Though the icon displayed at top-panel, gives me an option
> to cancel the job and later to clear the same, the job again reappears
> after some time - perhaps after rebooting. 
> I remember, when I was using suse, kde has on such tool by name
> kprintjobview. Is there any tool like that in gnome? Or any command line
> that will delete the job once for all.
> This problem is really trouble some. Unless the job gets permanently I
> am not able to use the printer or take printing? The printer queue seems
> adamant in getting the wrong job printed :~(.
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> Rajesh
> 
At the command prompt:
   1. lpstat -o  to see all queued jobs
   2. cancel <jobname> to cancel the unwanted job

	T.




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