viewing jobs in distant queue

[Frédéric Buelens]

Hello,

Thank you very much for your fast reply. I will investigate your solutions. Unfortunately, we do not use Suse Linux, but HP XC Software Linux, which is a modified Red Hat Enterprise for HP clusters.

>
> Hello,
>
> On May 31 10:41 Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Buelens wrote (shortened):
>
> > DeviceURI lpd://lpserver/c226
> =2E..=20
> > I'd like to know if there are some ways to display the distant
> > lpd queues state locally with lpq.
>
> Not with the lpq command of CUPS because this "speaks" only IPP.
>
> You would need a lpq binary which "speaks" LPD protocol
> (e.g. the lpq binary from LPRng) but then you must take care
> that you install the LPRng stuff into different directories or
> use different file names to avoid overwriting the CUPS binaries.
>
> Alternativerly you can query the queue state from a LPD
> on a (remote) host directly using a simple command like
>
> echo -en "\004$QUEUE\n" | netcat -w $TIMEOUT -p $PORT $HOST 515
>
> where $QUEUE is the (remote) queue name,
> $PORT is the local port which may have to be in the range 721-731
> if the LPD is strictly RFC 1179 (Line Printer Daemon Protocol)
> compliant (then only root can execute the above command),
> $HOST is the IP of the (remote) host where the LPD runs,
> "\004$QUEUE\n" is a LPD protocol request for a long status report
> and "\003$QUEUE\n" would result a short status report,
> for details see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt
>
> Note that subsequent calls of the command may fail as long as a
> TCP connection using $PORT still exists e.g. for several seconds
> in the state TIME_WAIT (use "netstat -nap | grep 515" to display
> the TCP connections). If the LPD accepts any source port, it works
> better to omit "-p $PORT" at all.
>
> By the way:
> If you use Suse Linux, have a look at
> /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/test_remote_lpd
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --=20
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