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.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt LPRM 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm lprm 40.Nd remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 44.Op Fl 45.Op job # ...\& 46.Op Ar user ...\& 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50utility will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue. 51Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using 52.Nm 53is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job. 54The owner of a job is determined by the user's login name 55and host name on the machine where the 56.Xr lpr 1 57command was invoked. 58.Pp 59Options and arguments: 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl P Ns Ar printer 62Specify the queue associated with a specific 63.Ar printer 64(otherwise the default printer is used). 65.It Fl 66If a single 67.Sq Fl 68is given, 69.Nm 70will remove all jobs which a user 71owns. 72If the super-user employs this flag, the spool queue will 73be emptied entirely. 74.It Ar user 75Cause 76.Nm 77to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user 78(or users). 79This form of invoking 80.Nm 81is useful only to the super-user. 82.It Ar job\ \&# 83A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job number. 84This number may be obtained from the 85.Xr lpq 1 86program, e.g.\& 87.Bd -literal -offset indent 88\&% lpq \-l 89 901st:ken [job #013ucbarpa] 91 (standard input) 100 bytes 92% lprm 13 93.Ed 94.El 95.Pp 96If neither arguments or options are given, 97.Nm 98will delete the currently active job if it is 99owned by the user who invoked 100.Nm . 101.Pp 102The 103.Nm 104utility announces the names of any files it removes and is silent if 105there are no jobs in the queue which match the request list. 106.Pp 107The 108.Nm 109utility will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before removing 110any spooling files. 111If a daemon is killed, a new one is 112automatically restarted upon completion of file removals. 113.Sh ENVIRONMENT 114If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 115.Nm . 116.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 117.It Ev PRINTER 118If the environment variable 119.Ev PRINTER 120exists, 121and a printer has not been specified with the 122.Fl P 123option, 124the default printer is assumed from 125.Ev PRINTER . 126.El 127.Sh FILES 128.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lock/ -compact 129.It Pa /etc/printcap 130Printer characteristics file. 131.It Pa /var/spool/* 132Spooling directories. 133.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 134Lock file used to obtain the pid of the current 135daemon and the job number of the currently active job. 136.El 137.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 138``Permission denied" if the user tries to remove files other than his 139own. 140.Sh SEE ALSO 141.Xr lpq 1 , 142.Xr lpr 1 , 143.Xr lpd 8 144.Sh HISTORY 145The 146.Nm 147command appeared in 148.Bx 3.0 . 149.Sh BUGS 150Since there are race conditions possible in the update of the lock file, 151the currently active job may be incorrectly identified. 152