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 BSD 4.2 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm lpq 40.Nd spool queue examination program 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm lpq 43.Op Fl a 44.Op Fl l 45.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 46.Op job # ... 47.Op user ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Nm Lpq 50examines the spooling area used by 51.Xr lpd 8 52for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 53specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 54.Nm Lpq 55invoked 56without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 57.Pp 58Options: 59.Pp 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl P 62Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 63line printer is used (or the value of the 64.Ev PRINTER 65variable in the 66environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 67names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 68.It Fl l 69Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 70is printed. 71Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 72.It Fl a 73Report on the local queues for all printers, 74rather than just the specified printer. 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 lpq : 105.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 106.It Ev PRINTER 107Specifies an alternate default printer. 108.El 109.Sh FILES 110.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/*/lock" -compact 111.It Pa /etc/printcap 112To determine printer characteristics. 113.It Pa /var/spool/* 114The spooling directory, as determined from printcap. 115.It Pa /var/spool/*/cf* 116Control files specifying jobs. 117.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 118The lock file to obtain the currently active job. 119.El 120.Sh SEE ALSO 121.Xr lpr 1 , 122.Xr lprm 1 , 123.Xr lpc 8 , 124.Xr lpd 8 125.Sh HISTORY 126.Nm Lpq 127appeared in 128.Bx 3 . 129.Sh BUGS 130Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 131.Nm 132may report unreliably. 133Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 134this can results in widely spaced columns. 135.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 136Unable to open various files. The lock file being malformed. Garbage 137files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 138