bugreport: printing in spite of deleting print job

[Karl Scheel]

I have had this problem myself on many occasions, and found that only the root 
can effectively kill a print job. You may be able to kill a print job as a 
normal user if you are given enough permissions to do so, although I haven't 
yet tried this myself. However, beware that giving a normal user root 
priviledges for the print spooler may compromise the security of your system. 

You must remember that Linux has been designed to be a multi-user system; it 
tends to conserve print jobs. I found that if the root does not kill the 
printjob, not only would it continue to print after a momentary power 
interruption to the printer, but also following a reboot of the entire 
system. :-(

If you find a secure way to kill a print job as a normal user, please let me 
know. In the meantime, to keep from wasting paper, please keep your printer 
off until the job has been killed by root.

Regards,
Karl



On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:09, Jürgen Katins wrote:
> I am using debian sarge, HP690C.
> The printer is old and runs into an error sometimes.
> Then I switch the printer off and delete the print job in kdeprint.
> But when I switch the printer on again it begins printing odd things.
> Even though I restart both printer and computer the printer begins again
> printing the job I thought has been deleted by kdeprint.
>
> It is very enervating that kdeprint pretends to kill aprint job but fails
> to do so.
>
> Greetings
>
> Juergen Katins
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