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- @.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
- .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
- .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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- .\" @@(#)lpc.8 6.1 (Berkeley) 4/27/85
- .\"
- .TH LPC 8 "April 27, 1985"
- .UC 5
- .ad
- .SH NAME
- lpc \- line printer control program
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B lpc
- [ command [ argument ... ] ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .I Lpc
- is used by the system administrator to control the
- operation of the line printer system.
- For each line printer configured in /etc/printcap,
- .I lpc
- may be used to:
- .IP \(bu
- disable or enable a printer,
- .IP \(bu
- disable or enable a printer's spooling queue,
- .IP \(bu
- rearrange the order of jobs in a spooling queue,
- .IP \(bu
- find the status of printers, and their associated
- spooling queues and printer dameons.
- .PP
- Without any arguments,
- .I lpc
- will prompt for commands from the standard input.
- If arguments are supplied,
- .IR lpc
- interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining
- arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input
- may be redirected causing
- .I lpc
- to read commands from file.
- Commands may be abreviated;
- the following is the list of recognized commands.
- .TP
- ? [ command ... ]
- .TP
- help [ command ... ]
- .br
- Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list,
- or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized commands.
- .TP
- abort { all | printer ... }
- .br
- Terminate an active spooling daemon on the local host immediately and
- then disable printing (preventing new daemons from being started by
- .IR lpr )
- for the specified printers.
- .TP
- clean { all | printer ... }
- .br
- 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.
- .TP
- disable { all | printer ... }
- .br
- Turn the specified printer queues off. This prevents new
- printer jobs from being entered into the queue by
- .IR lpr .
- .TP
- down { all | printer } message ...
- .br
- Turn the specified printer queue off, disable printing and put
- .I message
- in the printer status file. The message doesn't need to be quoted, the
- remaining arguments are treated like
- .IR echo (1).
- 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).
- .TP
- enable { all | printer ... }
- .br
- Enable spooling on the local queue for the listed printers.
- This will allow
- .I lpr
- to put new jobs in the spool queue.
- .TP
- exit
- .TP
- quit
- .br
- Exit from lpc.
- .TP
- restart { all | printer ... }
- .br
- 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.
- .I 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).
- .TP
- start { all | printer ... }
- .br
- Enable printing and start a spooling daemon for the listed printers.
- .TP
- status { all | printer ... }
- Display the status of daemons and queues on the local machine.
- .TP
- stop { all | printer ... }
- .br
- Stop a spooling daemon after the current job completes and disable
- printing.
- .TP
- topq printer [ jobnum ... ] [ user ... ]
- .br
- Place the jobs in the order listed at the top of the printer queue.
- .TP
- up { all | printer ... }
- .br
- Enable everything and start a new printer daemon. Undoes the effects of
- .IR down .
- .SH FILES
- .nf
- .ta \w'/etc/printcap 'u
- /etc/printcap printer description file
- /usr/spool/* spool directories
- /usr/spool/*/lock lock file for queue control
- .fi
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- lpd(8),
- lpr(1),
- lpq(1),
- lprm(1),
- printcap(5)
- .SH DIAGNOSTICS
- .nf
- .ta \w'?Ambiguous command 'u
- ?Ambiguous command abreviation matches more than one command
- ?Invalid command no match was found
- ?Privileged command command can be executed by root only
- .fi
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