lpstat question

[Marc Bohnert]

Does anyone know why the "-i" option to lpstat is undocumented and if it is safe to use. It seems to get around the lpstat hang problems associated with remote printers.

Is this option supported by different UNIX vendors.


Thank you

[Dave Chamberlin]

It is documented in my manual (HP-UX Reference Release 10.0), as "inhibit the reporting of remote status". I would ask - why does a normal lpstat hang forever if a remote printer is not responding?? It should timeout and get on with life...

[Ron Cornwell]

I did a man from the command line on a HP-UX 11.0 machine and it states "-i Inhibit the reporting of remote status".

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

DESCRIPTION
Any arguments that are not options are assumed to be request ids (as
returned by lp). lpstat prints the status of such requests. options
can appear in any order and can be repeated and intermixed with other
arguments.

-i Inhibit the reporting of remote status.

[Victor_5]

Hi Marc:

I use it on HP-UX 10.20, it is saft to do so.
For my system, I have 18 spoolers, 2 remote printers, and over 100 physical priters, I found it is very useful when I only want to know the information of some specific priters, you can use
# lpstat -i
or # lpstat -i -o