script to check print queue status

[Tracy Force]

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.

[Ermin Borovac · Accepted solution]

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 : ()

[Tracy Force]

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

[Tracy Force]

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

[jerry1]

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

[Sanjay_6]

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

[Tracy Force]

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