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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)lpq.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd April 28, 1995 36.Dt LPQ 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm lpq 40.Nd spool queue examination program 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl a 44.Op Fl l 45.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 46.Op job # ...\& 47.Op user ...\& 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51utility examines the spooling area used by 52.Xr lpd 8 53for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 54specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 55The 56.Nm 57utility invoked 58without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 59.Pp 60Options: 61.Pp 62.Bl -tag -width indent 63.It Fl P 64Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 65line printer is used (or the value of the 66.Ev PRINTER 67variable in the 68environment). 69All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 70names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 71.It Fl l 72Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 73is printed. 74Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 75.It Fl a 76Report on the local queues for all printers, 77rather than just the specified printer. 78.El 79.Pp 80For each job submitted (i.e., invocation of 81.Xr lpr 1 ) 82.Nm 83reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the 84names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which 85may be supplied to 86.Xr lprm 1 87for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes. 88Job ordering is dependent on 89the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed 90to be 91.Tn FIFO 92(First in First Out). 93File names comprising a job may be unavailable 94(when 95.Xr lpr 1 96is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file 97is indicated as ``(standard input)''. 98.Pp 99If 100.Nm 101warns that there is no daemon present (i.e., due to some malfunction), 102the 103.Xr lpc 8 104command can be used to restart the printer daemon. 105.Sh ENVIRONMENT 106If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 107.Nm : 108.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 109.It Ev PRINTER 110Specifies an alternate default printer. 111.El 112.Sh FILES 113.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/*/lock" -compact 114.It Pa /etc/printcap 115To determine printer characteristics. 116.It Pa /var/spool/* 117The spooling directory, as determined from printcap. 118.It Pa /var/spool/*/cf* 119Control files specifying jobs. 120.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 121The lock file to obtain the currently active job. 122.El 123.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 124Unable to open various files. 125The lock file being malformed. 126Garbage 127files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 128.Sh SEE ALSO 129.Xr lpr 1 , 130.Xr lprm 1 , 131.Xr lpc 8 , 132.Xr lpd 8 133.Sh HISTORY 134A 135.Nm 136utility appeared in 137.Bx 3 . 138.Sh BUGS 139Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 140.Nm 141may report unreliably. 142Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 143this can results in widely spaced columns. 144