On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:20:34AM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > 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) Doh! My bad. In that case, I don't know. It works on my system. I don't know why there's a difference. Sorry. -- 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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