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LPRM(1) 		     General Commands Manual			 LPRM(1)

NAME
     lprm -- remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue

SYNOPSIS
     lprm [-Pprinter] [-] [job # ...] [user ...]

DEPRECATION NOTICE
     This   facility   is   scheduled  for  removal  prior  to	the  release  of
     FreeBSD 16.0.

DESCRIPTION
     The lprm utility will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool  queue.
     Since  the  spooling  directory is protected from users, using lprm is nor-
     mally the only method by which a user may remove a job.  The owner of a job
     is determined by the user's login name and host name on the  machine  where
     the lpr(1) command was invoked.

     Options and arguments:

     -Pprinter
	     Specify the queue associated with a specific printer (otherwise the
	     default printer is used).

     -	     If  a  single  `-' is given, lprm will remove all jobs which a user
	     owns.  If the super-user employs this flag, the spool queue will be
	     emptied entirely.

     user    Cause lprm to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging	to  that
	     user  (or users).	This form of invoking lprm is useful only to the
	     super-user.

     job #   A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job  number.
	     This number may be obtained from the lpq(1) program, e.g.

		   % lpq -l

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

     If  neither  arguments or options are given, lprm will delete the currently
     active job if it is owned by the user who invoked lprm.

     The lprm utility announces the names of any files it removes and is  silent
     if there are no jobs in the queue which match the request list.

     The  lprm	utility will kill off an active daemon, if necessary, before re-
     moving any spooling files.  If a daemon is killed, a new one  is  automati-
     cally restarted upon completion of file removals.

ENVIRONMENT
     If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by lprm.

     PRINTER  If  the environment variable PRINTER exists, and a printer has not
	      been specified with the -P option, the default printer is  assumed
	      from PRINTER.

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

DIAGNOSTICS
     ``Permission denied" if the user tries to remove files other than his own.

SEE ALSO
     lpq(1), lpr(1), lpd(8)

HISTORY
     The lprm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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

FreeBSD 16.0 CURRENT		  June 6, 1993				 LPRM(1)

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