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.\" @(#)lprm.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 29.\" 30.Dd June 6, 1993 31.Dt LPRM 1 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm lprm 35.Nd remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 39.Op Fl 40.Op job # ...\& 41.Op Ar user ...\& 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45utility will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue. 46Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using 47.Nm 48is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job. 49The owner of a job is determined by the user's login name 50and host name on the machine where the 51.Xr lpr 1 52command was invoked. 53.Pp 54Options and arguments: 55.Bl -tag -width indent 56.It Fl P Ns Ar printer 57Specify the queue associated with a specific 58.Ar printer 59(otherwise the default printer is used). 60.It Fl 61If a single 62.Sq Fl 63is given, 64.Nm 65will remove all jobs which a user 66owns. 67If the super-user employs this flag, the spool queue will 68be emptied entirely. 69.It Ar user 70Cause 71.Nm 72to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user 73(or users). 74This form of invoking 75.Nm 76is useful only to the super-user. 77.It Ar job\ \&# 78A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job number. 79This number may be obtained from the 80.Xr lpq 1 81program, e.g.\& 82.Bd -literal -offset indent 83\&% lpq \-l 84 851st:ken [job #013ucbarpa] 86 (standard input) 100 bytes 87% lprm 13 88.Ed 89.El 90.Pp 91If neither arguments or options are given, 92.Nm 93will delete the currently active job if it is 94owned by the user who invoked 95.Nm . 96.Pp 97The 98.Nm 99utility announces the names of any files it removes and is silent if 100there are no jobs in the queue which match the request list. 101.Pp 102The 103.Nm 104utility will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before removing 105any spooling files. 106If a daemon is killed, a new one is 107automatically restarted upon completion of file removals. 108.Sh ENVIRONMENT 109If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 110.Nm . 111.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 112.It Ev PRINTER 113If the environment variable 114.Ev PRINTER 115exists, 116and a printer has not been specified with the 117.Fl P 118option, 119the default printer is assumed from 120.Ev PRINTER . 121.El 122.Sh FILES 123.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lock/ -compact 124.It Pa /etc/printcap 125Printer characteristics file. 126.It Pa /var/spool/* 127Spooling directories. 128.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 129Lock file used to obtain the pid of the current 130daemon and the job number of the currently active job. 131.El 132.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 133``Permission denied" if the user tries to remove files other than his 134own. 135.Sh SEE ALSO 136.Xr lpq 1 , 137.Xr lpr 1 , 138.Xr lpd 8 139.Sh HISTORY 140The 141.Nm 142command appeared in 143.Bx 3.0 . 144.Sh BUGS 145Since there are race conditions possible in the update of the lock file, 146the currently active job may be incorrectly identified. 147