topic Re: deleting printers in Operating System - HP-UX

deleting printers

Jeff Hagstrom — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:31:04 GMT

I have an RP7410, HPUX-11.i. I want to delete all 174 printers without having to do them one at a time thru sam. How can I delete all the printers at once?

Re: deleting printers

Pete Randall — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:35:09 GMT

Jeff,

If you can get a list of the printers into a text file (perhaps with the lpstat command), all you have to do is:

for PRNTR in `cat printer_list`
do
removequeue -f -q $PRNTR
done

Pete

Re: deleting printers

Pete Randall — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:36:49 GMT

Jeff,

Or, if it's not an HPPI defined printer, replace the removequeue with

"lpadmin -x$PRNTR"

Pete

Re: deleting printers

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:38:21 GMT

Hi,

you can try this,

# for i in `/usr/bin/lpstat -a |awk '{print $1}'`
> do
> lpadmin -x $i
> done

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: deleting printers

Geoff Wild — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:50:31 GMT

Remember, spooler must be shut first, so:
lpshut

for i in `ls /etc/lp/interface`
do
lpadmin -x$i
done

No space after -x

Rgds...Geoff

Re: deleting printers

Mark Ellzey — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:05:02 GMT

Jeff,

I know this is probably after the fact, but you can do this in SAM. Select the first printer, scroll to the last, hold the shift key and select the last printer. Under 'Actions', select 'Remove'. All selected printers will be removed.

Regards,
Mark