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 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" 34.Dd June 6, 1993 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 l 43.Op Fl P Ns Ar printer 44.Op job # ... 45.Op user ... 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Nm Lpq 48examines the spooling area used by 49.Xr lpd 8 50for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the 51specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user. 52.Nm Lpq 53invoked 54without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue. 55.Pp 56Options: 57.Pp 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl P 60Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default 61line printer is used (or the value of the 62.Ev PRINTER 63variable in the 64environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user 65names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. 66.It Fl l 67Information about each of the files comprising the job entry 68is printed. 69Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. 70.El 71.Pp 72For each job submitted (i.e. invocation of 73.Xr lpr 1 ) 74.Nm lpq 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 lpq 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 lpq : 100.Bl -tag -width PRINTER 101.It Ev PRINTER 102Specifies an alternate default printer. 103.El 104.Sh FILES 105.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/termcap -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.It Pa /usr/share/misc/termcap 115For manipulating the screen for repeated display. 116.El 117.Sh SEE ALSO 118.Xr lpr 1 , 119.Xr lprm 1 , 120.Xr lpc 8 , 121.Xr lpd 8 122.Sh HISTORY 123.Nm Lpq 124appeared in 125.Bx 3 . 126.Sh BUGS 127Due to the dynamic nature of the information in the spooling directory 128.Nm lpq 129may report unreliably. 130Output formatting is sensitive to the line length of the terminal; 131this can results in widely spaced columns. 132.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 133Unable to open various files. The lock file being malformed. Garbage 134files when there is no daemon active, but files in the spooling directory. 135