[PLUG] "Run as"

[Galen Seitz]

Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Galen Seitz wrote:
> 
> >> I was a bit frustrated yesterday, as I am running a print server on Red
> >> Hat 9 and had to kill a print-job-gone-bonkers that my son had started.
> 
> > Others have answered your main question, so ...
> 
>    These are all great answers, but they leave the frustration in place for a
> quick solution. I assume that CUPS is the printing system and that the
> attempt to kill the job as root was via /usr/sbin/printers.
> 
>    Two factors at play here. First, to kill a cups print job started by a
> user, run /users/sbin/printers as that user. Works every time. As root, you
> can "su <son's login name>" and run the program that way.

?

I'm using cups on rh9, and I don't have that particular comand.  How is
it better than lpq followed by sudo lprm?

galen


tinman:~$ rpm -qi cups
Name        : cups                         Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 1.1.17                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 13.3.0.3                      Build Date: Mon 20 Oct 2003 03:16:46 AM PDT