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.\" 34.Dd April 28, 1995 35.Dt LPQ 1 36.Os BSD 4.2 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm lpq 39.Nd spool queue examination program 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm lpq 42.Op Fl a 43.Op Fl l 44.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 45.Op job # ... 46.Op user ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm Lpq 49examines the spooling area used by 50.Xr lpd 8 51for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 52specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 53.Nm Lpq 54invoked 55without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 56.Pp 57Options: 58.Pp 59.Bl -tag -width indent 60.It Fl P 61Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 62line printer is used (or the value of the 63.Ev PRINTER 64variable in the 65environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 66names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 67.It Fl l 68Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 69is printed. 70Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 71.It Fl a 72Report on the local queues for all printers, 73rather than just the specified printer. 74.El 75.Pp 76For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of 77.Xr lpr 1 ) 78.Nm lpq 79reports the user's name, current rank in the queue, the 80names of files comprising the job, the job identifier (a number which 81may be supplied to 82.Xr lprm 1 83for removing a specific job), and the total size in bytes. 84Job ordering is dependent on 85the algorithm used to scan the spooling directory and is supposed 86to be 87.Tn FIFO 88(First in First Out). 89File names comprising a job may be unavailable 90(when 91.Xr lpr 1 92is used as a sink in a pipeline) in which case the file 93is indicated as ``(standard input)''. 94.Pp 95If 96.Nm lpq 97warns that there is no daemon present (i.e. due to some malfunction), 98the 99.Xr lpc 8 100command can be used to restart the printer daemon. 101.Sh ENVIRONMENT 102If the following environment variable exists, it is used by 103.Nm lpq : 104.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 105.It Ev PRINTER 106Specifies an alternate default printer. 107.El 108.Sh FILES 109.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/*/lock" -compact 110.It Pa /etc/printcap 111To determine printer characteristics. 112.It Pa /var/spool/* 113The spooling directory, as determined from printcap. 114.It Pa /var/spool/*/cf* 115Control files specifying jobs. 116.It Pa /var/spool/*/lock 117The lock file to obtain the currently active job. 118.El 119.Sh SEE ALSO 120.Xr lpr 1 , 121.Xr lprm 1 , 122.Xr lpc 8 , 123.Xr lpd 8 124.Sh HISTORY 125.Nm Lpq 126appeared in 127.Bx 3 . 128.Sh BUGS 129Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 130.Nm lpq 131may report unreliably. 132Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 133this can results in widely spaced columns. 134.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 135Unable to open various files. The lock file being malformed. Garbage 136files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 137