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

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Aug 29 15:00:43 PDT 2004


On Sunday 29 August 2004 13:13, Felix E. Klee wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:09:55 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >A "kill <process_id>" should be sufficient.
>>
>> Uh huh, sure you can, and how does one go about finding that
>> process_id?
>
>Some possibilities for printers connected to /dev/lp0:
>- fuser /dev/lp0
>- ps aux | grep lp0 (
>
>The latter one, of couse, only works if the string "lp0" is in the
>command name, but that's the case with these annoying Cups
> processes. See my original post.
>
>Felix
>
Just to be contrary, I'd have to grep for lp1 too, I have 2 printers 
attached. :)

Thanks, somehow that totally sensible idea never turns on a light here 
when things goto hell and the panic trigger goes off. :-)

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