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Re: KILL
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Bushy" <george dot bush at rogers dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:18:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: KILL
- References: <00c285522121543NTPAGER@ntpager.ca.cch.com>
Bushy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using Windows 2000 and cygwin. Currently I set up a windows queue
to
> the printer and use regular Windows interface to delete jobs on the queue.
> I would like to do this via a telnet session using the "kill". I've tried
> this bit I just can't get it to work. Below is an example of a job on the
> queue via a telnet session.
>
> Windows NT LPD Server
> Printer \\127.0.0.1\printer1
>
> Owner Status Jobname Job-Id
> Size Pages Priority
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------
> georgel (127.0.0.1) Printing JOB657_job.tmp 87 0
> 0 1
>
>
> kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
kill
> -l [sigspec]
>
> I've tried the following:
>
>> kill 87
>
> and I keep getting "no such pid"?
>
> What am I doing wrong?
kill has nothing to do with printers. The jobs it refers to are bash shell
jobs. You will need to find some other tool to control printers.
Max.
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