NAME

lpstat - print information about the status of the LP print service

SYNOPSIS

lpstat [options]

DESCRIPTION

The lpstat command prints information about the current status of the LP print service.

If no options are given, then lpstat prints the status of all the user's print requests made by lp [see lp(1)]. Any arguments that are not options are assumed to be request-IDs as returned by lp. The lpstat command prints the status of such requests. The options may appear in any order and may be repeated and intermixed with other arguments. Some of the keyletters below may be followed by an optional list that can be in one of two forms: a list of items separated from one another by a comma, or a list of items separated from one another by spaces enclosed in quotes. For example:

-u "user1, user2, user3"

Specifying all after any keyletter that takes list as an argument causes all information relevant to the keyletter to be printed. For example, the command

lpstat -o all

prints the status of all output requests.

The omission of a list following such key letters causes all information relevant to the key letter to be prined. For example, the command

lpstat -o

prints the status of all output requests.

-a [list]

     Reports  whether  print  destinations   are   accepting
     requests.   list  is a list of intermixed printer names
     and class names.

-c [list]

Reports name of all classes and their members. list is a list of class names.

-d Reports the system default destination for output requests.

-f [list] [-l]

Prints a verification that the forms in list are recognized by the LP print service. list is a list of forms; the default is all. The -l option will list the form descriptions.

-o [list]

Reports the status of output requests: list is a list of intermixed printer names, class names, and request-IDs. The keyletter -o may be omitted.

-p [list] [-D] [-l]

Reports the status of printers. list is a list of printer names. If the -D option is given, a brief description is printed for each printer in list. If the -l option is given, and the printer is on the local machine, a full description of each printer's configuration is given, including the form mounted, the acceptable content and printer types, a printer description, the interface used, and so on. If the -l option is given and the printer is remote, the only information given is the remote machine and printer names, and the shell-commands used for file transfer and remote execution.

-r Reports whether the LP request scheduler is on or off.

-R Reports a number showing the position of the job in the print queue.

-s Displays a status summary, including the status of the LP scheduler, the system default destination, a list of class names and their members, a list of printers and their associated devices, a list of the machines sharing print services, a list of all forms currently mounted, and a list of all recognized character sets and print wheels.

-S [list] [-l]

Prints a verification that the character sets or the print wheels specified in list are recognized by the LP print service. Items in list can be character sets or print wheels; the default for the list is all. If the -l option is given, each line is appended by a list of printers that can handle the print wheel or character set. The list also shows whether the print wheel or character set is mounted or specifies the built-in character set into which it maps.

-t Displays all status information: all the information obtained with the -s option, plus the acceptance and idle/busy status of all printers.

-u [login-ID-list]

Displays the status of output requests for users. The login-ID-list argument may include any or all of the following constructs:

     login-ID       a user on any system

     system_name!login-ID

                    a user on system system_name

     system_name!all

                    all users on system system_name

     all!login-ID   a user on all systems

     all            all users on all systems

-v [list]

Reports the names of printers and the pathnames of the devices associated with them or remote system names for network printers: list is a list of printer names.

FILES

/var/spool/lp/*
/etc/lp/*

SEE ALSO

enable(1), lp(1).