JMS@MIS.ARIZONA.EDU ("That ain't no VAX; that's an 1840") (05/22/88)
unmvax!charon!sdowdy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU writes: >Does anyone know of a way to *really* delete a print queue on a spooled >device? >Up to this point the only way i can get the queue deleted is by: > 1) $ stop <queue> > 2) pid = f$getdvi(<queue_device>,"PID") ! get symbiont PID > 3) Stop/Id='pid' ! Kill the symbiont > 4) Delete/Queue <queue> Don't do that. Do this: 1) $ stop/que/next <queue> 2) $ delete/que <queue> You have to do a stop/que/next, not just a stop/que. I don't remember if this is a RTFM, but it's been that way as long as I can remember (for reasons which I'm sure Jerry Leichter will explain in greater detail than I care to). +----------------------------+ BITNET: jms@arizmis.BITNET |Joel M Snyder | Inter: jms@mis.arizona.edu |Univ of Arizona Dep't of MIS| Phone: 602.621.2748 ICBM: 32 13 N / 110 58 W |Tucson, AZ 85721 | Quote: "Design is everything. +----------------------------+ Implementation is trivial."