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script to check print queue status

Tracy Force — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:56:59 GMT

I am new to this and am trying to figure out how to get a script to do an lpstat -t and give me an output of jobs older than 15 mins, then I am going to send it to an ipager. any help is greatly appreciated. THANKS
I've done some reading and gotten a few examples that I'm looking at to see if they will help me at all.

Re: script to check print queue status

Ermin Borovac — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:39:43 GMT

I've attached small perl script that will print details of jobs that are older than 15 minutes.

Output should be in the format

Request - owned by in the queue since : ()

Re: script to check print queue status

Tracy Force — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:08:04 GMT

great thanks.. I'll try it out and see what I get.

Re: script to check print queue status

Tracy Force — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:19:36 GMT

hmm.. it didn't work.. how can I convert to korn script?.. thanks

Re: script to check print queue status

jerry1 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:14:00 GMT

Here is a script that I wrote to clear out
any print jobs older that 24 hours.
You may be able to modify or gleen something
from it.

#!/bin/ksh
#
# Cancel stuck printer jobs over 24 hours old.
# Jerry Moore 3/29/04

lpstat -o | grep priority | grep -v "`date | cut -c 5-10`" | awk '{print $1}'>/tmp/stkprjobs
for i in `cat /tmp/stkprjobs`;do
cancel $i
done

Re: script to check print queue status

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:33:30 GMT

Hi Tracy,

There is a couple of choices in this link for a similar forum post. you may have to do some modification to suit your individual needs,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=121243

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: script to check print queue status

Tracy Force — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:52:30 GMT

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaw... y'all rock.. THANK YOU, now back to learning ..