[plug] cancelling a CUPS print job

[Mark]

Mike Holland wrote:

>After an OS upgrade (to andrake 9.2), I switched to CUPS for printing,
>which is certainly a lot easier to set up on a network.
>  But after I managed to send some junk to the printer I couldnt stop
>it. Cancelling the active job doesnt stop it.
>Even when the CUPS service is stopped, it keeps coming.
>  'fuser /dev/lp0' shows that a process called 'parallel' is using it,
>which needed a 'kill -9'.
>   Google found complaints about this, but no fix.  www.cups.org is down.
>Do all CUPS users with parallel printers have this problem?
>
Hi Mike,

Have had this problem with most recent versions of Mandrake and CUPS.
9.0, 9.1 even 8.2 maybe.     Have never found a solution either.
I'm still using kill -9.
Sorry its no help but at least its answers part of your question.

Mark



>Anybody have a fix?
>
>cheers, Mike.
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