Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 01:49 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Monday 2006-05-08 at 12:00 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
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> > By the way:
> > Why does "cancel -a" and/or "cancel -u" not work?
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> I was going to suggest "lpq" and then "lprm JOBNUMBER".
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> However, I find that although the job disappears from the queue (lpq shows 
> nothing), 90% of the times my printer continues printing, and I have to 
> "kill -9" as root the "parallel" job that is printing to the parallel 
> port.
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> I don't know why, but it has been so for ages.
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Just because you turn off the spigot does not mean the hose is instantly
empty. The job is queued in memory on the printer and needs to empty
from memory on the printer before stopping, the job has been removed
from the PC but not from the printer.

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Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998