topic Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script in Operating System - HP-UX

trap "printer busy" on shell script

roberto salvatori — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:58:28 GMT

hi all,
what i wanna do is to trap on script shell if one or more printers are busy.
lpstat have no option to do this (i think so).
what can i do? have someone an idea?
thanks in advice

roberto salvatori

Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:17:33 GMT

Hi roberto,

Not sure but I think lpstat -p will inform if printer is busy.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script

roberto salvatori — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:23:44 GMT

true, lpstat doesn't show if printer is busy or not. i wanna trap the same thing like on sam. waiting for someone. roberto

Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script

Mark Grant — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:37:47 GMT

Does "lpstat -t | grep "printing" do what you are after?