[problem]
You have jobs stuck in the print queue. You want to clear the queues and remove all jobs.
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[solution]
You have to stop all processes and remove the files from spooling directories.
Probably worth taking a backup of these files first. 🙂 All at own risk.
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[example]
1.
stopsrc -cs qdaemon # bring down qdaemon and clear qdforks.
stopsrc -s lpd
2.
rm /etc/qconfig.bin # compiled /etc/qconfig
3.
rm /var/spool/lpd/qdir/* # queue requests; JDF
4.
rm /var/spool/lpd/stat/* # info on status of devices
5.
rm /var/spool/lpd/pio/msg* # error message files.
6.
rm /var/spool/qdaemon # temp copies of queue jobs
7.
rm /var/spool/lpd/* # temp copies of remote jobs
8.
ps -ef | grep pio # kill any of these processes; look for piobe, pioformat, pioout
9.
ps -ef | grep qd # kill any of these processes; look for qdforks.
10.
startsrc -s qdaemon # restarting qdaemon
startsrc -s lpd # restarting lpd
11.
lssrc -s qdaemon #look for active
ps -ef | grep qdaemon
lssrc -s lpd # look for active
ps -ef | grep lpd
12.
ps -ef | grep srcmstr # if there are 2 running, kill -9 one of them with higher PID.
13.
As a last resort – reboot
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[reference]
[tags], Unix Coding School[/tags]
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