[cups.general] restart printer from command line

chuck.amadi chuck.amadi at ntlworld.com
Wed Aug 17 14:46:42 PDT 2005


Anonymous wrote:

>Hi,
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>Is there a command to restart a printer from the command line instead of the interface?
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>So I can put it in a sheduler.
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>Grtz
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Hi

I hope this helps As root in your shell  run which command i.e which lp 
or lpr whatever your print queue name is mine is lpr So which lpr output 
/usr/sbin/lpr

Thus run  /usr/sbin/lpr restart

Cheers

Chuck






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