[plug] cancelling a CUPS print job

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:21:08AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >> 'fuser /dev/lp0' shows that a process called 'parallel' is using it,
> >>which needed a 'kill -9'.

> 'parallel' will be the parport backend CUPS uses to communicate with the 
> printer - /usr/lib/cups/backend/parport. I thought it would be signalled 
> to death when a job was cancelled, but presumably not - I've seen this 
> issue myself as well.

Cycle the power on whatever's connected to the parallel port.

top will tell you why parallel is waiting; well sort of.

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