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rcancel(1M) rcancel(1M)

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/*