Re: How to *absolutely* kill pending print jobs?

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:17:30 -0700, joe wrote
> .
> How can one *absolutely* kill any and all pending print jobs?
>
> I have tried 'lpstat' and 'cancel spoolfilename'.
> I have tried 'lpq' and 'lprm'
> I have tried deleting files in /var/spool/cups and
> /var/spool/cups/tmp I have tried turning the printer off and back on
>
> But every time I turn the printer back on, it keeps trying
> to print a pending print file with a seemingly never-ending
> flow of *blank* pages.

I finally killed it by doing: ps -ef
and killing the spool process ...
but I'm not sure that is the best solution.

Is that a "safe" method?
Any better solutions?


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