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OpenWindows Advanced User's Guide

8.2.3 Displaying All Status Information

The -t option for lpstat gives you a short listing of the status of the LP print service.

To display a short listing of all status information, type the following:

$ lpstat -t

All available status information is displayed.

In the following example, there are no jobs in the print queue. When files are spooled for printing, the status of those print requests is also displayed:

$ lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: pinecone
system for acorn: oak
pinecone accepting requests since Wed Jan 2 18:20:10 PST 1991
acorn accepting requests since Mon Mar 4 15:53:47 PST 1991
printer pinecone is idle. enabled since Wed Jan 2 18:20:22 PST
1991. available.
                                                                         
    
printer acorn is idle. enabled since Mon Mar 4 15:53:44 PST 1991.
available.
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