System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Examples—Setting Fault Alerts for a Printer

The following example shows how to set up the printer mars to send fault alerts by email to a user named joe, with reminders every 5 minutes.


# lpadmin -p mars -A 'mail joe' -W 5

The following example shows how to sets up the printer venus to send fault alerts to the console window, with reminders every 10 minutes.


# lpadmin -p venus -A write -W 10

The following example shows how to stop fault alerts for the printer mercury.


# lpadmin -p mercury -A none

The following example shows how to stop fault alerts until the printer venus has been fixed.


# lpadmin -p venus -A quiet