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Re: printer queue immortal - help!



> On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:56, Pigeon wrote:
>> 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:
>> > 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.

Any chance that the printer has non-volatile memory where that job is cached?


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