Re: 100's of blank pages
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:46:35PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> 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.
-ef shows everything (note the - in front of the options : sysv mode)
Frank
>
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