[cups.bugs] lpq -P doesn't work at all

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Aug 26 12:12:20 PDT 2008


Brandon wrote:
> Did you guys realize that the lpq -P function that should return the queue for a printer only returns data on one user. Either that or it randomly returns data on only 2 users and only 2 prints.
> 
> I had 3 people generate massive traffic to see if the queue actually works and it only showed 2 prints in the queue.
> 
> I had the printer in a class and when I did lpstat -o it showed 15 prints for that printer yet doing lpq -P <printername> only showed 2.
> 
> Is this like the printer queue in cups or on the actual printer?

"lpq -P printer" returns information about the named printer.  If
that printer is a CUPS shared printer, it only shows the jobs in the
local queue.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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