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.\" @(#)lprm.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.Nd remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue
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.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer
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will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue.
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Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using
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is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job.
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The owner of a job is determined by the user's login name
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and host name on the machine where the
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Options and arguments:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl P Ns Ar printer
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Specify the queue associated with a specific
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(otherwise the default printer is used).
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will remove all jobs which a user
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If the superuser employs this flag, the spool queue will
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to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user
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is useful only to the superuser.
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A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job number.
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This number may be obtained from the
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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1st:ken [job #013ucbarpa]
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(standard input) 100 bytes
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If neither arguments or options are given,
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will delete the currently active job if it is
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owned by the user who invoked
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announces the names of any files it removes and is silent if
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there are no jobs in the queue which match the request list.
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will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before removing
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If a daemon is killed, a new one is
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automatically restarted upon completion of file removals.
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If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by
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.Bl -tag -width PRINTER
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If the environment variable
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and a printer has not been specified with the
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the default printer is assumed from
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.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lock/ -compact
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printer characteristics file
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.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock
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lock file used to obtain the PID of the current
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daemon and the job number of the currently active job
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.It Sy Permission denied
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Printed if the user tries to remove files other than his own.
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Since there are race conditions possible in the update of the lock file,
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the currently active job may be incorrectly identified.
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