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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION).\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF.\" SUCH DAMAGE..\".\"     @(#)lpc.8	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94.\".Dd April 19, 1994.Dt LPC 8.Os BSD 4.2.Sh NAME.Nm lpc.Nd line printer control program.Sh SYNOPSIS.Nm lpc.Oo.Ar command.Op Ar argument ....Oc.Sh DESCRIPTION.Nm Lpcis used by the system administrator to control theoperation of the line printer system.  For each line printer configured in.Pa /etc/printcap ,.Nm lpcmay be used to:.Bl -bullet -offset indent.Itdisable or enable a printer,.Itdisable or enable a printer's spooling queue,.Itrearrange the order of jobs in a spooling queue,.Itfind the status of printers, and their associatedspooling queues and printer daemons..El.PpWithout any arguments,.Nm lpcwill prompt for commands from the standard input.If arguments are supplied,.Nm lpcinterprets the first argument as a command and the remainingarguments as parameters to the command.  The standard inputmay be redirected causing.Nm lpcto read commands from file.Commands may be abbreviated;the following is the list of recognized commands..Pp.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact.It Ic \&? No [ command ... ].It Ic help No [ command ... ]Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list,or, if no argument is given, a list of the recognized commands..Pp.It Ic abort  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Terminate an active spooling daemon on the local host immediately andthen disable printing (preventing new daemons from being started by.Xr lpr )for the specified printers..Pp.It Ic clean  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Remove any temporary files, data files, and control files that cannotbe printed (i.e., do not form a complete printer job)from the specified printer queue(s) on the local machine..Pp.It Ic disable  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Turn the specified printer queues off.  This prevents newprinter jobs from being entered into the queue by.Xr lpr ..Pp.It Ic down No {\ all\ |\ printer\ } message ...Turn the specified printer queue off, disable printing and put.Em messagein the printer status file. The message doesn't need to be quoted, theremaining arguments are treated like.Xr echo 1 .This is normally used to take a printer down and let others know why.Xr lpq 1will indicate the printer is down and print the status message)..Pp.It Ic enable  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Enable spooling on the local queue for the listed printers. This will allow.Xr lpr 1to put new jobs in the spool queue..Pp.It Ic exit.It Ic quitExit from lpc..Pp.It Ic restart  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Attempt to start a new printer daemon. This is useful when some abnormal condition causes the daemon todie unexpectedly, leaving jobs in the queue..Xr Lpqwill report that there is no daemon present when this condition occurs. If the user is the super-user,try to abort the current daemon first (i.e., kill and restart a stuck daemon)..Pp.It Ic start  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Enable printing and start a spooling daemon for the listed printers..Pp.It Ic status  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Display the status of daemons and queues on the local machine..Pp.It Ic stop  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Stop a spooling daemon after the current job completes and disableprinting..Pp.It Ic topq No printer\ [\ jobnum\ ...\ ]\ [\ user\ ...\ ]Place the jobs in the order listed at the top of the printer queue..Pp.It Ic up  No {\ all\ |\ printer\ }Enable everything and start a new printer daemon. Undoes the effects of.Ic down ..Sh FILES.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/*/lockx -compact.It Pa /etc/printcapprinter description file.It Pa /var/spool/*spool directories.It Pa /var/spool/*/locklock file for queue control.El.Sh SEE ALSO.Xr lpd 8 ,.Xr lpr 1 ,.Xr lpq 1 ,.Xr lprm 1 ,.Xr printcap 5.Sh DIAGNOSTICS.Bl -tag -width Ds.It Sy "?Ambiguous command"abbreviation matches more than one command.It Sy "?Invalid command"no match was found.It Sy "?Privileged command"command can be executed by root only.El.Sh HISTORYThe.Nmcommand appeared in.Bx 4.2 .