paused jobs / status info

pipitas k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Wed Dec 22 13:27:11 PST 2004


Ian Taylor wrote:

> I'm trying to view information on jobs currently queued.  This is working
> very well with lpstat and lpq, apart from when I want to see which jobs
> have been paused.
> 
> I can't see a way to find which jobs have been paused - I've tried all the
> relevant options I can see from the man pages of lpstat and lpq, and lots
> of googling unfortunately did not help me.
> 
> I *can* see the paused status from the web frontand at
> http://localhost:631/ , but I need to be able to get this information from
> the command line 

What about a text-only based browser like "w3m" then? You may get to
where you want by doing s.th. like

   w3m -dump http://localhost:631/jobs|grep held

Cheers,
Kurt





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