[cups.general] Re: lprm <PID> => Not all processes killed

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:53, Felix E. Klee wrote:

[...]

>> I've been in that situation several times, and the only way out is
>> to reboot which will kill that process about 95% of the time.
>
>A "kill <process_id>" should be sufficient.

Uh huh, sure you can, and how does one go about finding that 
process_id?  I've done a 'ps -ea|grep cups' and come up blank while 
the printer is still kicking out 6 plus pages a minute of raw text 
lots of times.

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