topic who is printing?? in Operating System - HP-UX

who is printing??

Peter Gillis — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:39:05 GMT

HI,
ux 11.11v1
Would anyone know of how I might findout who has been sending output to specific printers? Is there a log anywhere?
Easy points for someone ...
thanks, Maria.

Re: who is printing??

John Poff — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:43:10 GMT

Hi,

If you have 'lpsched' started with the -v option it will write a log to /var/adm/lp/log, which should help you.

JP

Re: who is printing??

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:52:42 GMT

Hi Maria,

"lpstat -t" will give you the current jobs. man lpstat for more options.

-Sri

Re: who is printing??

Michael Tully — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:02:20 GMT

Actually lpstat -t gives all information about all printing facilities, printers, jobs, status. If you just want the the current jobs, lpstat -o or lpstat -u will give you this info, including the userid sending the print job. The /var/adm/lp/log file contains all the information on past lp jobs.

Re: who is printing??

Peter Gillis — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:16:52 GMT

Thanks everyone. You all helped me along the way. grep printerid /var/adm/lp/log gave me the info I was after.
Maria.

Re: who is printing??

Peter Gillis — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:18:45 GMT

grep printerid /var/adm/lp/log
Thanks