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author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
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committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
commit | d6583bb2a13f329cf0332ef2570eb8bb8fc0e39c (patch) | |
tree | ece253b876159b39c620e62b6c9b1174642e070e /usr.sbin/lpr/lpc/lpc.8 |
initial import of NetBSD tree
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/lpr/lpc/lpc.8 b/usr.sbin/lpr/lpc/lpc.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a786adcad94 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/lpr/lpc/lpc.8 @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)lpc.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 +.\" +.Dd April 19, 1994 +.Dt LPC 8 +.Os BSD 4.2 +.Sh NAME +.Nm lpc +.Nd line printer control program +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm lpc +.Oo +.Ar command +.Op Ar argument ... +.Oc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Lpc +is used by the system administrator to control the +operation of the line printer system. +For each line printer configured in +.Pa /etc/printcap , +.Nm lpc +may be used to: +.Bl -bullet -offset indent +.It +disable or enable a printer, +.It +disable or enable a printer's spooling queue, +.It +rearrange the order of jobs in a spooling queue, +.It +find the status of printers, and their associated +spooling queues and printer daemons. +.El +.Pp +Without any arguments, +.Nm lpc +will prompt for commands from the standard input. +If arguments are supplied, +.Nm lpc +interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining +arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input +may be redirected causing +.Nm lpc +to read commands from file. +Commands may be abbreviated; +the following is the list of recognized commands. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact +.It Ic \&? No [ command ... ] +.It Ic help No [ command ... ] +Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list, +or, if no argument is given, a list of the recognized commands. +.Pp +.It Ic abort No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Terminate an active spooling daemon on the local host immediately and +then disable printing (preventing new daemons from being started by +.Xr lpr ) +for the specified printers. +.Pp +.It Ic clean No {\ 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. +.Pp +.It Ic disable No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Turn the specified printer queues off. This prevents new +printer jobs from being entered into the queue by +.Xr lpr . +.Pp +.It Ic down No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } message ... +Turn the specified printer queue off, disable printing and put +.Em message +in the printer status file. The message doesn't need to be quoted, the +remaining arguments are treated like +.Xr echo 1 . +This is normally used to take a printer down and let others know why +.Xr lpq 1 +will indicate the printer is down and print the status message). +.Pp +.It Ic enable No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Enable spooling on the local queue for the listed printers. +This will allow +.Xr lpr 1 +to put new jobs in the spool queue. +.Pp +.It Ic exit +.It Ic quit +Exit from lpc. +.Pp +.It Ic restart No {\ 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. +.Xr Lpq +will report that there is no daemon present 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). +.Pp +.It Ic start No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Enable printing and start a spooling daemon for the listed printers. +.Pp +.It Ic status No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Display the status of daemons and queues on the local machine. +.Pp +.It Ic stop No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Stop a spooling daemon after the current job completes and disable +printing. +.Pp +.It Ic topq No printer\ [\ jobnum\ ...\ ]\ [\ user\ ...\ ] +Place the jobs in the order listed at the top of the printer queue. +.Pp +.It Ic up No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } +Enable everything and start a new printer daemon. Undoes the effects of +.Ic down . +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lockx -compact +.It Pa /etc/printcap +printer description file +.It Pa /var/spool/* +spool directories +.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock +lock file for queue control +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr lpd 8 , +.Xr lpr 1 , +.Xr lpq 1 , +.Xr lprm 1 , +.Xr printcap 5 +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Sy "?Ambiguous command" +abbreviation matches more than one command +.It Sy "?Invalid command" +no match was found +.It Sy "?Privileged command" +command can be executed by root only +.El +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |