lprm(1)                                                   lprm(1)



     NAME
          lprm - remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue  for
          a Berkeley file system (4.2)

     SYNOPSIS
          lprm [ -Pprinter ] [-] [jobno]...  [user]...

     DESCRIPTION
          lprm removes a job, or jobs, from a printer spool queue.
          Since the spooling directory is protected from users, using
          lprm is normally the only method by which a user may remove
          a job.

          lprm without any arguments deletes the currently active job
          if it is owned by the user who invoked lprm.

          Specifying a user's name or list of users' names causes lprm
          to attempt to remove any queued jobs belonging to that user
          (or users).  This form of invoking lprm is useful only to
          the super-user.

          A user may remove an individual job from a queue by specify-
          ing its job number.  This number may be obtained from the
          lpq(1) program, for example,

               % lpq -l

               ken : 1st      [job 013ucbarpa]
               (standard input)    100 bytes
               % lprm 13

          lprm announces the names of any files it removes and is
          silent if there are no jobs in the queue that match the re-
          quest list.

          lprm kills off an active daemon, if necessary, before remov-
          ing any spooling files.  If a daemon is killed, a new one is
          automatically restarted upon completion of file removals.

     FLAG OPTIONS
          The following flag options are interpreted by lprm:

          -Pprinter
               Specifies the queue associated with a specific printer,
               otherwise the default printer, or the value of the
               PRINTER variable in the environment is used.

          -    Removes all jobs that a user owns.  If the superuser
               employs this flag, the spool queue is emptied entirely.
               The owner is determined by the user's login name and
               host name on the machine where the lpr command was in-
               voked.



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     lprm(1)                                                   lprm(1)



     FILES
          /etc/printcap       Printer characteristics file
          /usr/spool/*        Spooling directories
          /usr/spool/*/lock   Lock file used to obtain the process ID of the
                              current daemon and the job number of the
                              currently active job

     SEE ALSO
          lpd(1M), lpr(1), lpq(1).

     DIAGNOSTICS
          A ``Permission denied'' is received if the user tries to re-
          move files other than his own.

     BUGS
          Since there are race conditions possible in the update of
          the lock file, the currently active job may be incorrectly
          identified.





































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