OT:UNIX printer question

[Bill Vermillion]

In the last exciting episode of the filePro saga, 
Courtney was heard to say:" 
if: Wed, Jan 19 14:35  
then: nm = Courtney 
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then: show nm < "said:"  
Courtney said: 

> Guys AND Gals

> We just a runaway job that was printing page after page...I
> canceled some jobs thru UNIX with the cancel command (after
> doing lpstat) and realized that the best way was to use
> scoadmin. After going thru all the jobs (i removed the paper
> so I wouldnt waste it), there was one job still in queue...I
> turned printer on and off and put back the paper...now the
> problem is there are jobs waiting behind this one job but I
> cannot remove it...tried with the cancel command and got this

> UX:cancel: WARNING: Request "enroll-92012" is done.
>             TO FIX: It is too late to do anything with it

> What can I do?

I've seen that before.  Once it's gone from the spooler and is
actively trying to be printed you need to shut down the printing
daemon.  {lpshut}.

Recyle your printer, and start up the daemon again.  If it still
wants to run through a lot of pages, turn off the printer, stop
the lp servies, and reboot the system.

When you have problems like this, always shut down the lp
services first. And if the print job is going to a networked
printer I've found the only way I've been able to clear it when
the printer went away was a restart of the system.  And that's
usually fastest way.

Bill
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