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From: art@MITRE.ARPA (Art McClinton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: $ Delete/Queue ; help needed
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Date: 23 May 88 15:57:39 GMT
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You did not expand the command that you are using to stop the Queue.
The correct command is $STOP/QUE/NEXT <queue_name>.
If you do not include the "/NEXT", the queue is only paused to allow
you to correct a problem with the printer.  The /NEXT allows the
present queue task to complete an the queue is then fully stopped.
At this point you can delete the queue.  If you accidentally "pause"
the queue, you must restart it before "stopping" it correctly.

I will not go into the many possible problems you can cause by
deleteing the symbiont.
 
     
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  =-=- This note is in response to yours which follows -=-=

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.

I don't know offhand if this is only for spooled print queues, or not, but
i need to delete the queue to modify parameters on the spooled device via
SET TERM, or just to move the print queue to another device (having a
DZ blowup recently, and moving the line...)

I'd really appreciate a "nice" way to do this, since i make changes to
queues fairly regularly (or have been forced to).

Thanks,
--stephen dowdy
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