On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:52:57PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > Help! I have an epson stylus c62 local on a sid box. Mozilla sent it a > raw postscript file as text. THis means dozens of pages of garbage. I > tried to cancel the printjob: > - from CLI as the user whose job it was - failed > - from CLI as root - ditto > - by deleting files from /var/spool/cups - but continues to print > - by deleting files from /var/spool/lpd/lp - job now disappears from > lpq, but continues to print. > > Switching off the printer and back on has no effect - it just carries on > printing. > > Restarting lpd and cupsd has no effect. Rebooting the computer has no > effect (yes, I got that desperate). How can I stem the flow of > printout? The data must reside somewhere...
ps ax, find the processes doing the printing and kill -9 them. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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