Clearing Print Spooler

[Devon Ainsworth]

Is there a way to clear the whole spooler?
Instead of going to one by one in SAM to clear it?

Please let me know

Thank You

Devon

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

You will find all your prints in /var/spool/lp/requests. In here are printer names containing the prints for each printer. You can delete the files in here.

[Pete Randall]

Devon,

You could write a simple script that uses a for loop. First shut down the spooler with the lpshut command, then use the lpstat command to get the list of requests, then cycle through that list in a "for" loop, canceling each request with the cancel command.


Pete

[Devon Ainsworth]

Thank you.. much better :)

Devon