System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Examples—Setting an Alert to Mount a Print Wheel or Font Cartridge

The following example shows how to set email alerts to occur every five minutes for the elite print wheel when there are ten print requests for elite in the print queue.


# lpadmin -S elite -A mail -Q 10 -W 5

The following example shows how to set email alerts to occur every minute for the finnish font cartridge when there are five print requests for finnish in the print queue.


# lpadmin -S finnish -A mail -Q 5 -W 1

The following example show how to set console-window alerts to occur every 10 minutes for the elite print wheel when there are five print requests for elite in the print queue.


# lpadmin -S elite -A write -Q 5 -W 10

The following example shows how to set no alerts to occur for the elite print wheel.


# lpadmin -S elite -A none