August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 45m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins
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Name
lpc
Synopsis
lpc [command]
Description
System administration command. Control line printer. If executed without a command, lpc will accept commands from standard input.
Commands
- ?, help [commands]
Get a list of commands or help on specific commands.
- abort all|printer
Terminate current printer daemon and disable printing for the specified printer.
- clean all|printer
Remove files that cannot be printed from the specified printer queues.
- disable all|printer
Disable specified printer queues.
- down all|printer message
Disable specified printer queues and put message in the printer status file.
- enable all|printer
Enable the specified printer queues.
- exit, quit
Exit lpc.
- restart all|printer
Try to restart printer daemons for the specified printers.
- start all|printer
Enable the printer queues and start printing daemons for the specified printers.
- status all|printer
Return the status of the specified printers.
- stop all|printer
Disable the specified printer daemons after any current jobs are completed.
- topq printer [jobnumbers] [users]
Put the specifed jobs at the top of the printer’s queue in the order the jobs are listed.
- up all|printer
Enable print queues and restart daemons for the specified printers.
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