1.\" $NetBSD: lpq.1,v 1.14 2003/08/07 11:25:29 agc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)lpq.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 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 al 41.Op Fl P Ar printer 42.Op Fl w Ar maxwait 43.Op Ar job# ... 44.Op Ar user ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Nm 47examines the spooling area used by 48.Xr lpd 8 49for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 50specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 51.Nm 52invoked 53without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 54.Pp 55Options: 56.Pp 57.Bl -tag -width indent 58.It Fl P 59Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 60line printer is used (or the value of the 61.Ev PRINTER 62variable in the 63environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 64names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 65.It Fl l 66Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 67is printed. 68Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 69.It Fl a 70Report on the local queues for all printers, 71rather than just the specified printer. 72.It Fl w Ar maxwait 73Specify the maximum time to wait in seconds for remote responses. 74The default is 300 seconds or 5 minutes. 75.El 76.Pp 77For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of 78.Xr lpr 1 ) 79.Nm 80reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the 81names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which 82may be supplied to 83.Xr lprm 1 84for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes. 85Job ordering is dependent on 86the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed 87to be 88.Tn FIFO 89(First in First Out). 90File names comprising a job may be unavailable 91(when 92.Xr lpr 1 93is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file 94is indicated as ``(standard input)''. 95.Pp 96If 97.Nm 98warns that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunction), 99the 100.Xr lpc 8 101command can be used to restart the printer daemon. 102.Sh ENVIRONMENT 103If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 104.Nm : 105.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 106.It Ev PRINTER 107Specifies an alternative default printer. 108.El 109.Sh FILES 110.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/output/*/lock -compact 111.It Pa /etc/printcap 112To determine printer characteristics. 113.It Pa /var/spool/output/* 114The spooling directory, as determined from printcap. 115.It Pa /var/spool/output/*/cf* 116Control files specifying jobs. 117.It Pa /var/spool/output/*/lock 118The lock file to obtain the currently active job. 119.El 120.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 121Unable to open various files. The lock file being malformed. Garbage 122files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 123.Sh SEE ALSO 124.Xr lpr 1 , 125.Xr lprm 1 , 126.Xr lpc 8 , 127.Xr lpd 8 128.Sh HISTORY 129.Nm 130appeared in 131.Bx 3 . 132.Sh BUGS 133Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 134.Nm 135may report unreliably. 136Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 137this can results in widely spaced columns. 138