Re: [Lprng-devel] cancel.n

[walter h. <wh...@bf...>]

Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * walter harms <wh...@bf...> [070219 18:51]:
>> initial release
>>
>> .TH CANCEL 1 2006-17-12 "LPRng" "cancel command"
>> .SH NAME
>> cancel \- remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue
>> .SH SYNOPSIS
>> .BI cancel "[-A] [-D<option>] (jobid|user|'all') [printer]"
> 
> I guess that should wait until cancel actually behaves like SYSV cancel
> instead of like lprm?

the job of cancel and that of lprm are the same deleting dead files.
the page here is only the beginning. them main problem is that lprm
need to identify it self as 'cancel' not as 'clear'.




> 
>> .B cancel all
>> removes all your jobs on default printer
> 
> That removes all jobs the current user has permission to remove.
> Removing all own jobs would be something like "cancel $LOGNAME"

this is like  'cancel $LOGNAME' if no user name is supplied the
current username is used.
That you can remove only jobs you have permission to remove is obvious.


> 
>> .TP
>> .B cancel all all
>> removes all your jobs on all printers
> 


does anyone have a description of cancel in SVID2 ?
given that noone complain about a not working cancel we should not
spend to much time on it simply note the differences.


re,
 wh


> dito
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> Hochachtungsvoll,
> 	Bernhard R. Link
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