delete completed print jobs?

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Thu Jan 26 08:44:44 PST 2006


I test with cancel -a ,it seems it will delete all the jobs,including the jibs in the pending state,is there any command  I can use to just delete the jobs in completed state?

thanks


> info at userfriendly-devon.com wrote:
> > I am running OS X.3.4 and access cups via mozilla as 10.0.0.1:631 and
> > can see a complete list of completed print jobs, How can i clear
> > this? Is there a log that can be simply deleted?
>
>  From the Terminal window, use:
>
>      cancel -a
>
> If you don't want any job history, edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file
> and change the line:
>
>      PreserveJobHistory yes
>
> to:
>
>      PreserveJobHistory no
>
> and then reboot or "sudo killall -HUP cupsd" in the Terminal window.
>
> For less job history, look at the MaxJobs directive in the same
> file (default is 500).
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com





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