Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Russbucket <russbucket@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:14, pelibali wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 15:12:27 -0500
>
> Jack Malone <.> wrote:
> > The way I do it with ssh is ssh into the box then su enter root
> > password. then killall cupsd ( kills the print deamon).
> > then open up mc. Then move to the var directory, then spool, then
> > cups. That should put you in the cups directory where the files are
> > stored for each print job. I delete everything in that directory with
> > F8 . You have to do each file there one at a time. after they are all
> > gone then cupsd to restart the cups print deamon.
>
> Thank you, this did the trick! Almost the same suggestion arrived to
> me from Paul C. as well in private.
>
> Regards,
> Pelibali
if you can get to the above mentioned directory and log in as root. You can 
use rm c* (at least on my system all the files there start with a c. them 
change directory to the /tmp in the cups directory and clear all the entries 
there with a rm x* where x is the first copy of characters of the file names.

This works for me. Hope this is easier than all the f8's if you have alot of 
files.
-- 
Russ