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.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd June 6, 1993 32.Dt LPRM 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm lprm 36.Nd remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 40.Op Fl 41.Op job # ...\& 42.Op Ar user ...\& 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue. 47Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using 48.Nm 49is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job. 50The owner of a job is determined by the user's login name 51and host name on the machine where the 52.Xr lpr 1 53command was invoked. 54.Pp 55Options and arguments: 56.Bl -tag -width indent 57.It Fl P Ns Ar printer 58Specify the queue associated with a specific 59.Ar printer 60(otherwise the default printer is used). 61.It Fl 62If a single 63.Sq Fl 64is given, 65.Nm 66will remove all jobs which a user 67owns. 68If the super-user employs this flag, the spool queue will 69be emptied entirely. 70.It Ar user 71Cause 72.Nm 73to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user 74(or users). 75This 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.Bd -literal -offset indent 84\&% lpq \-l 85 861st:ken [job #013ucbarpa] 87 (standard input) 100 bytes 88% lprm 13 89.Ed 90.El 91.Pp 92If neither arguments or options are given, 93.Nm 94will delete the currently active job if it is 95owned by the user who invoked 96.Nm . 97.Pp 98The 99.Nm 100utility announces 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 103The 104.Nm 105utility will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before removing 106any spooling files. 107If a daemon is killed, a new one is 108automatically restarted upon completion of file removals. 109.Sh ENVIRONMENT 110If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by 111.Nm . 112.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 113.It Ev PRINTER 114If the environment variable 115.Ev PRINTER 116exists, 117and a printer has not been specified with the 118.Fl P 119option, 120the default printer is assumed from 121.Ev PRINTER . 122.El 123.Sh FILES 124.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lock/ -compact 125.It Pa /etc/printcap 126Printer characteristics file. 127.It Pa /var/spool/* 128Spooling directories. 129.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 130Lock file used to obtain the pid of the current 131daemon and the job number of the currently active job. 132.El 133.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 134``Permission denied" if the user tries to remove files other than his 135own. 136.Sh SEE ALSO 137.Xr lpq 1 , 138.Xr lpr 1 , 139.Xr lpd 8 140.Sh HISTORY 141The 142.Nm 143command appeared in 144.Bx 3.0 . 145.Sh BUGS 146Since there are race conditions possible in the update of the lock file, 147the currently active job may be incorrectly identified. 148