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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)lprm.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" 34.Dd June 6, 1993 35.Dt LPRM 1 36.Os BSD 4.2 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm lprm 39.Nd remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm lprm 42.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 43.Op Fl 44.Op job # ... 45.Op Ar user ... 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Nm Lprm 48will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue. 49Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using 50.Nm 51is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job. 52The owner of a job is determined by the user's login name 53and host name on the machine where the 54.Xr lpr 1 55command was invoked. 56.Pp 57Options and arguments: 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl P Ns Ar printer 60Specify the queue associated with a specific 61.Ar printer 62(otherwise the default printer is used). 63.It Fl 64If a single 65.Sq Fl 66is given, 67.Nm 68will remove all jobs which a user 69owns. If the super-user employs this flag, the spool queue will 70be emptied entirely. 71.It Ar user 72Cause 73.Nm 74to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user 75(or users). This form of invoking 76.Nm 77is useful only to the super-user. 78.It Ar job\ \&# 79A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job number. 80This number may be obtained from the 81.Xr lpq 1 82program, e.g. 83.Pp 84.Bd -literal -offset indent 85\&% lpq \-l 86 871st:ken [job #013ucbarpa] 88 (standard input) 100 bytes 89% lprm 13 90.Ed 91.El 92.Pp 93If neither arguments or options are given, 94.Nm 95will delete the currently active job if it is 96owned by the user who invoked 97.Nm lprm . 98.Pp 99.Nm Lprm 100announces the names of any files it removes and is silent if 101there are no jobs in the queue which match the request list. 102.Pp 103.Nm Lprm 104will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before removing 105any spooling files. If a daemon is killed, a new one is 106automatically restarted upon completion of file removals. 107.Sh ENVIRONMENT 108If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 109.Nm lprm . 110.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 111.It Ev PRINTER 112If the environment variable 113.Ev PRINTER 114exists, 115and a printer has not been specified with the 116.Fl P 117option, 118the default printer is assumed from 119.Ev PRINTER . 120.El 121.Sh FILES 122.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lock/ -compact 123.It Pa /etc/printcap 124Printer characteristics file. 125.It Pa /var/spool/* 126Spooling directories. 127.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 128Lock file used to obtain the pid of the current 129daemon and the job number of the currently active job. 130.El 131.Sh SEE ALSO 132.Xr lpq 1 , 133.Xr lpr 1 , 134.Xr lpd 8 135.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 136``Permission denied" if the user tries to remove files other than his 137own. 138.Sh BUGS 139Since there are race conditions possible in the update of the lock file, 140the currently active job may be incorrectly identified. 141.Sh HISTORY 142The 143.Nm 144command appeared in 145.Bx 3.0 . 146