137 lines
4.5 KiB
Groff
137 lines
4.5 KiB
Groff
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.\" @(#)lpq.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
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.\"
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.Dd April 28, 1995
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.Dt LPQ 1
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.Os BSD 4.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm lpq
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.Nd spool queue examination program
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm lpq
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.Op Fl a
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.Op Fl l
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.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer
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.Op job # ...
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.Op user ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Lpq
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examines the spooling area used by
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.Xr lpd 8
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for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the
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specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user.
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.Nm Lpq
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invoked
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without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue.
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.Pp
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Options:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl P
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Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default
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line printer is used (or the value of the
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.Ev PRINTER
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variable in the
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environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user
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names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest.
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.It Fl l
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Information about each of the files comprising the job entry
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is printed.
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Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed.
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.It Fl a
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Report on the local queues for all printers,
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rather than just the specified printer.
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.El
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.Pp
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For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of
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.Xr lpr 1 )
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.Nm
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reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the
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names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which
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may be supplied to
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.Xr lprm 1
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for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes.
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Job ordering is dependent on
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the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed
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to be
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.Tn FIFO
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(First in First Out).
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File names comprising a job may be unavailable
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(when
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.Xr lpr 1
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is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file
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is indicated as ``(standard input)''.
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.Pp
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If
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.Nm
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warns that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunction),
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the
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.Xr lpc 8
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command can be used to restart the printer daemon.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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If the following environment variable exists, it is used by
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.Nm lpq :
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.Bl -tag -width PRINTER
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.It Ev PRINTER
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Specifies an alternate default printer.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/*/lock" -compact
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.It Pa /etc/printcap
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To determine printer characteristics.
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.It Pa /var/spool/*
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The spooling directory, as determined from printcap.
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.It Pa /var/spool/*/cf*
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Control files specifying jobs.
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.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock
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The lock file to obtain the currently active job.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr lpr 1 ,
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.Xr lprm 1 ,
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.Xr lpc 8 ,
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.Xr lpd 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm Lpq
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appeared in
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.Bx 3 .
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.Sh BUGS
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Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory
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.Nm
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may report unreliably.
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Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal;
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this can results in widely spaced columns.
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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Unable to open various files. The lock file being malformed. Garbage
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files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory.
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