[plug] cancelling a CUPS print job

[Bill Kenworthy]

cups is way overcomplicated.  When it works, it works well - but when it
doesnt ...

BillK

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:45, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Otherwise, kill the print job in cups, stop cups, delete any related
> > processes, powercycle printer, restart cups (you may have to find and
> > delete the spool file if its really being nasty!)
> 
> Sounds like our SCO OpenServer box's print system :-( at least in terms 
> of the level of stuffing about to do simple things.
> 
> The POST has a nightly cron job on our SCO box that runs:
> 
> /usr/lib/lpshut
> kill `ps -ef | grep lpd | awk '{print $2}'`
> /usr/lib/lpsched
> /usr/lib/lpd
> 
> because the print system just periodically dies. You'd think that 
> there'd be less stuffing about involved in printing on modern *NIX, but 
> increasingly it seems to be almost as bad - though in different ways.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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