Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU!carl
From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: $ Delete/Queue ; help needed
Message-ID: <880521110952.1665@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 21 May 88 18:11:26 GMT
References: <3107@charon.unm.edu>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 18


 > 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>
 > 
 > If i don't kill the symbiont, VMS will say "queue must be stopped", which
 > i have already done in step 1.  I don't want to kill the symbiont, since
 > that's not very nice to do to a multi-threaded process driving multiple
 > print queues.

You might try stopping the queue before you try deleting it, instead of
pausing it.  To do this, use the command
	$ stop/next <queue>