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

Felix E. Klee felix.klee at inka.de
Sun Aug 29 10:13:53 PDT 2004


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





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