[K12OSN] cancel print jobs

[Jim McQuillan]

Why not something simple like this:

   cancel -a -d bigprinter

That will remove ALL print jobs for the 'bigprinter' destination.

You can configure sudo if you want to give the cancel capability to 
non-root users.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



Brian Chivers wrote:
> Will Hatch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This might be a bit off topic; how do you cancel all print jobs from the
>> command line?  I have some students that think if you continue to click
>> "print" that their assignment will eventually appear from the printer.
>> I assume you have to be logged in as root.  Then what? Thanks!
>>
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> I use this on the printserver
>
> for i in `lpstat -o|grep printername|awk '{print $1}'`; do cancel $i; 
> done
>
> So if your printer was called `bigprinter` you'd have
>
> for i in `lpstat -o|grep bigprinter|awk '{print $1}'`; do cancel $i; done
>
>
> I've actually set this up as a custom job in Webmin to make it easier 
> to run.
>
> Brian
>
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