1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.Dd June 6, 1993 29.Dt LPRM 1 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm lprm 33.Nd remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 37.Op Fl 38.Op job # ...\& 39.Op Ar user ...\& 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Nm 43utility will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue. 44Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using 45.Nm 46is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job. 47The owner of a job is determined by the user's login name 48and host name on the machine where the 49.Xr lpr 1 50command was invoked. 51.Pp 52Options and arguments: 53.Bl -tag -width indent 54.It Fl P Ns Ar printer 55Specify the queue associated with a specific 56.Ar printer 57(otherwise the default printer is used). 58.It Fl 59If a single 60.Sq Fl 61is given, 62.Nm 63will remove all jobs which a user 64owns. 65If the super-user employs this flag, the spool queue will 66be emptied entirely. 67.It Ar user 68Cause 69.Nm 70to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user 71(or users). 72This form of invoking 73.Nm 74is useful only to the super-user. 75.It Ar job\ \&# 76A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job number. 77This number may be obtained from the 78.Xr lpq 1 79program, e.g.\& 80.Bd -literal -offset indent 81\&% lpq \-l 82 831st:ken [job #013ucbarpa] 84 (standard input) 100 bytes 85% lprm 13 86.Ed 87.El 88.Pp 89If neither arguments or options are given, 90.Nm 91will delete the currently active job if it is 92owned by the user who invoked 93.Nm . 94.Pp 95The 96.Nm 97utility announces the names of any files it removes and is silent if 98there are no jobs in the queue which match the request list. 99.Pp 100The 101.Nm 102utility will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before removing 103any spooling files. 104If a daemon is killed, a new one is 105automatically restarted upon completion of file removals. 106.Sh ENVIRONMENT 107If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 108.Nm . 109.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 110.It Ev PRINTER 111If the environment variable 112.Ev PRINTER 113exists, 114and a printer has not been specified with the 115.Fl P 116option, 117the default printer is assumed from 118.Ev PRINTER . 119.El 120.Sh FILES 121.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lock/ -compact 122.It Pa /etc/printcap 123Printer characteristics file. 124.It Pa /var/spool/* 125Spooling directories. 126.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 127Lock file used to obtain the pid of the current 128daemon and the job number of the currently active job. 129.El 130.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 131``Permission denied" if the user tries to remove files other than his 132own. 133.Sh SEE ALSO 134.Xr lpq 1 , 135.Xr lpr 1 , 136.Xr lpd 8 137.Sh HISTORY 138The 139.Nm 140command appeared in 141.Bx 3.0 . 142.Sh BUGS 143Since there are race conditions possible in the update of the lock file, 144the currently active job may be incorrectly identified. 145