On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:56:00PM +0000, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > >Run ps ax and you'll see a bunch of processes leading to one named > >"parallel" something (assuming your printer's on the parallel port). > >Kill the "parallel" process, and the ones feeding it (probably > >ghostscript ones) if they're still running. Don't be afraid to kill -9 > >them if they refuse to die. > > > > > nah: > > ps -ef | grep parallel > > nothing. > > Even a manual perusal of the output frm ps -ef reveals nothing of interest. They won't show on that, because they were started by cups so they won't be running as you. You need the a and x options to show processes of other users and processes without controlling ttys. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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