1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)lpq.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 29.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpq/lpq.1,v 1.5.2.4 2002/06/21 16:40:46 charnier Exp $ 30.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpq/lpq.1,v 1.4 2008/05/02 02:05:08 swildner Exp $ 31.\" 32.Dd April 28, 1995 33.Dt LPQ 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm lpq 37.Nd spool queue examination program 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl a 41.Op Fl l 42.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 43.Op job # ...\& 44.Op user ...\& 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility examines the spooling area used by 49.Xr lpd 8 50for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 51specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 52The 53.Nm 54utility invoked 55without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 56.Pp 57Options: 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl P 60Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 61line printer is used (or the value of the 62.Ev PRINTER 63variable in the 64environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 65names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 66.It Fl l 67Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 68is printed. 69Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 70.It Fl a 71Report on the local queues for all printers, 72rather than just the specified printer. 73.El 74.Pp 75For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of 76.Xr lpr 1 ) 77.Nm 78reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the 79names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which 80may be supplied to 81.Xr lprm 1 82for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes. 83Job ordering is dependent on 84the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed 85to be 86.Tn FIFO 87(First in First Out). 88File names comprising a job may be unavailable 89(when 90.Xr lpr 1 91is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file 92is indicated as ``(standard input)''. 93.Pp 94If 95.Nm 96warns that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunction), 97the 98.Xr lpc 8 99command can be used to restart the printer daemon. 100.Sh ENVIRONMENT 101If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 102.Nm : 103.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 104.It Ev PRINTER 105Specifies an alternate default printer. 106.El 107.Sh FILES 108.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/*/lock" -compact 109.It Pa /etc/printcap 110To determine printer characteristics. 111.It Pa /var/spool/* 112The spooling directory, as determined from printcap. 113.It Pa /var/spool/*/cf* 114Control files specifying jobs. 115.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 116The lock file to obtain the currently active job. 117.El 118.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 119Unable to open various files. The lock file being malformed. Garbage 120files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 121.Sh SEE ALSO 122.Xr lpr 1 , 123.Xr lprm 1 , 124.Xr lpc 8 , 125.Xr lpd 8 126.Sh HISTORY 127A 128.Nm 129utility appeared in 130.Bx 3 . 131.Sh BUGS 132Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 133.Nm 134may report unreliably. 135Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 136this can results in widely spaced columns. 137