.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)lpc.8 8.1 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd line printer control program
is used by the system administrator to control the
operation of the line printer system.
For each line printer configured in
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disable or enable a printer,
disable or enable a printer's spooling queue,
rearrange the order of jobs in a spooling queue,
find the status of printers, and their associated
spooling queues and printer dameons.
will prompt for commands from the standard input.
If arguments are supplied,
interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining
arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input
may be redirected causing
to read commands from file.
Commands may be abreviated;
the following is the list of recognized commands.
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.It Ic \&? No [ command ... ]
.It Ic help No [ command ... ]
Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list,
or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized commands.
.It Ic abort No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Terminate an active spooling daemon on the local host immediately and
then disable printing (preventing new daemons from being started by
for the specified printers.
.It Ic clean No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Remove any temporary files, data files, and control files that cannot
be printed (i.e., do not form a complete printer job)
from the specified printer queue(s) on the local machine.
.It Ic disable No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Turn the specified printer queues off. This prevents new
printer jobs from being entered into the queue by
.It Ic down No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } message ...
Turn the specified printer queue off, disable printing and put
in the printer status file. The message doesn't need to be quoted, the
remaining arguments are treated like
This is normally used to take a printer down and let others know why
will indicate the printer is down and print the status message).
.It Ic enable No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Enable spooling on the local queue for the listed printers.
to put new jobs in the spool queue.
.It Ic restart No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Attempt to start a new printer daemon.
This is useful when some abnormal condition causes the daemon to
die unexpectedly leaving jobs in the queue.
will report that there is no daemon present when this condition occurs.
If the user is the super-user,
try to abort the current daemon first (i.e., kill and restart a stuck daemon).
.It Ic start No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Enable printing and start a spooling daemon for the listed printers.
.It Ic status No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Display the status of daemons and queues on the local machine.
.It Ic stop No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Stop a spooling daemon after the current job completes and disable
.It Ic topq No printer\ [\ jobnum\ ...\ ]\ [\ user\ ...\ ]
Place the jobs in the order listed at the top of the printer queue.
.It Ic up No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }
Enable everything and start a new printer daemon. Undoes the effects of
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lock file for queue control
.It Sy "?Ambiguous command"
abreviation matches more than one command
.It Sy "?Invalid command"
.It Sy "?Privileged command"
command can be executed by root only
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