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.Dd April 28, 1995 29.Dt LPQ 1 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm lpq 33.Nd spool queue examination program 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Fl a 37.Op Fl l 38.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 39.Op job # ...\& 40.Op user ...\& 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44utility examines the spooling area used by 45.Xr lpd 8 46for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 47specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 48The 49.Nm 50utility invoked 51without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 52.Pp 53Options: 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Fl P 56Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 57line printer is used (or the value of the 58.Ev PRINTER 59variable in the 60environment). 61All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 62names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 63.It Fl l 64Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 65is printed. 66Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 67.It Fl a 68Report on the local queues for all printers, 69rather than just the specified printer. 70.El 71.Pp 72For each job submitted (i.e., invocation of 73.Xr lpr 1 ) 74.Nm 75reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the 76names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which 77may be supplied to 78.Xr lprm 1 79for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes. 80Job ordering is dependent on 81the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed 82to be 83.Tn FIFO 84(First in First Out). 85File names comprising a job may be unavailable 86(when 87.Xr lpr 1 88is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file 89is indicated as ``(standard input)''. 90.Pp 91If 92.Nm 93warns that there is no daemon present (i.e., due to some malfunction), 94the 95.Xr lpc 8 96command can be used to restart the printer daemon. 97.Sh ENVIRONMENT 98If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 99.Nm : 100.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 101.It Ev PRINTER 102Specifies an alternate default printer. 103.El 104.Sh FILES 105.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/*/lock" -compact 106.It Pa /etc/printcap 107To determine printer characteristics. 108.It Pa /var/spool/* 109The spooling directory, as determined from printcap. 110.It Pa /var/spool/*/cf* 111Control files specifying jobs. 112.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 113The lock file to obtain the currently active job. 114.El 115.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 116Unable to open various files. 117The lock file being malformed. 118Garbage 119files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 120.Sh SEE ALSO 121.Xr lpr 1 , 122.Xr lprm 1 , 123.Xr lpc 8 , 124.Xr lpd 8 125.Sh HISTORY 126A 127.Nm 128utility appeared in 129.Bx 3 . 130.Sh BUGS 131Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 132.Nm 133may report unreliably. 134Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 135this can results in widely spaced columns. 136