NAME

rcancel − remove requests from a remote line printer spooling queue

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/rcancel [ id ... ] [ printer ] [ −a ] [ −e ] [ −u user ]

DESCRIPTION

Rcancel removes a request, or requests, from the spool queue of a remote printer.  Rcancel is invoked by the cancel(1) command.

At least one id or the name of a printer must be specified. 

Options

id Specifying a request ID (as returned by lp(1)) cancels the associated request, if the request is owned by the user, even if it is currently printing.

printer Name of the printer (for a complete list, use lpstat(1)). Specifying a printer cancels the request which is currently printing on that printer, if the request is owned by the user.  If the −a, −e or the −u option is specified, then this option only specifies the printer to perform the cancel operation on. 

−a Remove all requests which a user owns on the specified printer (see printer). The owner is determined by the user’s login name and host name on the machine where the lp command was invoked. 

−e Empty the spool queue of all requests for the specified printer. This form of invoking rcancel is useful only to the superuser. 

−u user Remove any requests queued belonging to that user (or users).  This form of invoking rcancel is useful only to the superuser. 

AUTHOR

Rcancel was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and HP. 

DEPENDENCIES

Series 300 Diskless
In a clustered environment, all UUCP activity is handled through devices attached to the rootserver as if the cluster were a single system. Remote spooling applies to spooling from or to machines outside of the cluster.

FILES

/usr/spool/lp/*

SEE ALSO

accept(1M), enable(1), lp(1), lpadmin(1M), lpsched(1M), lpstat(1), rlp(1M), rlpdaemon(1M), rlpstat(1M). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  May 11, 2021