Patrick Powell on wrote...
| > I may have missed this in the documentation, but for some reason, I
| > can't get the printer queue of a remote printer using SysV or BSD lpq
| > (it may not even work with LPRng lpq, I haven't installed LPRng on any
| > of the workstations yet). All that lpq returns is:
| >
| > >lpq
| > lj101@shake 0 jobs
|
| You need to try: lpq -s
|
| They interpret the status request 'inverted'.
|
| > Did I miss a config option?
|
| Welll... sort of.
|
| # Purpose: reverse LPQ status format when specified remotehost
| # default reverse_lpq_status=0 (STRING)
|
| For example:
| lp:....
| :reverse_lpq_status=sun.4.system
|
| This should work. I think.
|
Under LPRng lpq is very versitle in its output
lpq -s a single line
lpq 4 header lines and the queue
lpq -l two or three lines for "Status and Filter_Status:
lpq -ll more lines for eact section
lpq -lll even more lines for eact section
lpq -L The complete huge long and verbose status history
Is there some way of just telling lprng to just NEVER serve the short
status, WITHOUT destroying the ability to get a longer status?
For example....
The option
reverse_lpq_status=*
makes a lprng request lpq -s the very LONG status report! Arrggghh!!!
but also makes evrry other lpq option (-l, -ll and -L) return just
the useless short status
The other option
force_lpq_status=l=*
Seems to only effect a "lpq -s" request.. GOOD
BUT it also returns that very LONG status report!
I would prefer it to report a "lpq -l" or even a "lpq -ll" report
instead. the former being what I would have expected the above option
to do.
Peter, can this be fixed, so they don't se that LOOONNNGGGG report!
and it only affests short: lpq requests.
Current version of lprng is the latest 3.8.15
PPS: The "force_lpq_status" was actully added, due a request by me,
years ago. I was having a problem with PC's using "winlpr" and only
seeing a short status return, presumably because it was designed with
sun4 lpd in mind when it was written. I ended up sticking with
the "reverse_lpq_status" at that time, and making "lpq" on our unix
boxes a "lpq -s" shell script. ;-)
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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