Line printer control program.
| abort {all | printer} |
Terminate an active spooling daemon
on the local host immediately and then disable printing
(preventing new daemons from being started by lpr) for the
specified printers. |
| clean {all | printer} |
Remove any temporary files, data
files, and control files that cannot be printed (i.e., do not
form a complete printer job) from the specified printer queue(s)
on the local machine. |
| enable {all | printer} |
Enable spooling on the local queue
for the listed printers. This will allow lpr(1) to put new jobs
in the spool queue. |
| exit |
Exit from lpc. |
| disable {all | printer} |
Turn the specified printer queues
off. This prevents new printer jobs from being entered into the
queue by lpr. |
| down {all | printer} |
Turn the specified printer queue
off, disable printing and put message in the printer
status file. The message doesn't need to be quoted, the
remaining arguments are treated like echo.
This is normally used to take a printer down and let others know
why lpq will indicate the printer
is down and print the status message). |
| help |
Print a short description of each
command specified in the argument list, or, if no arguments are
given, a list of the recognized commands. |
| quit |
Exit from lpc. |
| restart {all | printer} |
Attempt to start a new printer
daemon. This is useful when some abnormal condition causes the
daemon to die unexpectedly leaving jobs in the queue. Lpq will
report that there is no daemon pre- sent when this condition
occurs. If the user is the super-user, try to abort the current
daemon first (i.e., kill and restart a stuck daemon). |
| start {all | printer} |
Enable printing and start a spooling
daemon for the listed printers. |
| status {all | printer} |
Display the status of daemons and
queues on the local machine. |
| stop {all | printer} |
Stop a spooling daemon after the
current job completes and disable printing. |
| topq printer [jobnum]
[user] |
Place the jobs in the order listed
at the top of the printer queue. |
| up |
Enable everything and start a new
printer daemon. Undoes the effects of down. |
| ? |
Print a short description of each
command specified in the argument list, or, if no arguments are
given, a list of the recognized commands. |
