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rcancel(1M)

HP-UX 11i Version 3: February 2007
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NAME

rcancel — remove requests from a remote printer spooling queue

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/rcancel [id ...] [printer] [-a] [-e] [-u user]

DESCRIPTION

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

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

This command is intended to be used only by the spool system in response to the cancel command (see lp(1)), and should not be invoked directly.

Options

The rcancel command recognizes the following options:

id

Specifying a request ID (as returned by lp (see lp(1))) cancels the associated request, even if it is currently printing. The maximum number of ids that can be specified is 50.

printer

Name of the printer (for a complete list, use lpstat (see 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, this option only specifies the printer on which to perform the corresponding cancel operation.

-a

Remove all requests owned by the user 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 users with appropriate privileges.

-u user

Remove any requests queued belonging to that user (or users) for the specified printer. You can repeat the -u option to specify more users. The maximum number of users that can be specified is 50. This form of invoking rcancel is useful only to users with appropriate privileges.

WARNINGS

A remote print request can be canceled only from the system on which the the original lp command was issued, and if the restrict cancel feature (see lpadmin(1M)) is enabled for the specified printer, a request belonging to this printer can be canceled only by the system administrator or the user who requested it.

This command is intended to be used only by the spool system in response to the cancel command (see lp(1)), and should not be invoked directly.

AUTHOR

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

FILES

/var/spool/lp/* /var/adm/lp/* /etc/lp/* /usr/lib/lp/*

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