Deleting printers

[Germano Silva]

Hi,

I have an old Ultra 1 that I inherit a while back which has two printers
defined that no longer exist. When I try deleting these printers with
lpadmin -x printername, I get the following:

UX:lpadmin: ERROR: There are jobs currently queued for destination

"lj4"

TO FIX: Use the /usr/sbin/lpmove command to

assign them to another destination,

or wait for them to finish printing.

I cannot move them, since I don't have another printer on this machine. For
some reason lprm does not remove the file from the printQ.

How can I completely get rid of these two printers as well as turning print
services off on this machine. I'm using Solaris 2.5.1

[--mouse--]

You need to do

lpstat -o -l

this will list print jobs i.e.

lj4-200 user1 /filename

then either

cancel -u user1 to cancel all the users printjobs
or
cancel lj4-200 to cancel the specific job

then lpadmin -x lj4

to shut down lp, edit the /etc/init.d/lp script and comment out the start)
bit
i.e.
start)
[ -f /usr/lib/lpsched ] && /usr/lib/lpsched
change to
start)
# [ -f .....
echo "No print services required"

"Germano Silva" <german...@home.com> wrote in message
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[Greg Andrews]

"Germano Silva" <german...@home.com> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have an old Ultra 1 that I inherit a while back which has two printers
>defined that no longer exist. When I try deleting these printers with
>lpadmin -x printername, I get the following:
>
>UX:lpadmin: ERROR: There are jobs currently queued for destination
>
>"lj4"
>

Sounds like there's a fragment of a print job left in the queue
that you need to remove. Because it's a fragment, you can't
cancel the job. So, you have to use brute force:

lpshut

cd /var/spool/lp

rm -r tmp temp fifos requests

On Solaris 2.6 and later:

cd /var/spool/print

rm *

/usr/lib/lp/lpsched

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[Germano Silva]

That did not work. Any more ideas?

Here's some output of lpstat, lpadmin and lpq.
# lpstat -o -l

# lpstat -t

scheduler is running

no system default destination

system for lj4: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (as printer DCS_LJ4_Q)

system for qms: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (as printer DCS_QMS2425_Q)

lj4 not accepting requests since Tue Jan 2 10:20:36 EST 2001 -

unknown reason

qms not accepting requests since Tue Jan 2 10:20:00 EST 2001 -

unknown reason

printer lj4 disabled since Wed Aug 8 12:09:36 EDT 2001. available.

unknown reason

printer qms disabled since Wed Aug 8 12:09:40 EDT 2001. available.

unknown reason

# lpadmin -x lj4

UX:lpadmin: ERROR: There are jobs currently queued for destination

"lj4"

TO FIX: Use the /usr/sbin/lpmove command to

assign them to another destination,

or wait for them to finish printing.

# lpq -Plj4

unknown reasonunknown reason

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[--mouse--]

You will have to delete manually then ..

try doing this.

/usr/sbin/lpshut
rm /var/spool/lp/temp/*

/usr/lib/lpsched
lpadmin -x lpj4

If that doesnt work .. might be easier to remove the printers manually as
well.

they are in /etc/lp/printers
they might be elsewhere check for printcap file in /etc and remove printers
from there as well.
sorry 2.5.1 was a while back so I forget where things used to live.

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[Germano Silva]

Brute force worked. Thanks

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