lpsched(ADM) 19 June 1992 lpsched(ADM) Name lpsched, lpshut, lpmove - start/stop the print service and move requests Syntax /usr/lib/lpsched /usr/lib/lpsched -q integer /usr/lib/lpsched -a integer /usr/lib/lpsched -p integer /usr/lib/lpsched -s integer /usr/lib/lpshut /usr/lib/lpmove requests dest /usr/lib/lpmove dest1 dest2 Description lpsched starts the LP print service; this can be done only by root. lpshut shuts down the print service. All printers that are printing at the time lpshut is invoked will stop printing. When lpsched is started again, requests that were printing at the time a printer was shut down will be reprinted from the beginning. lpmove moves requests that were queued by lp between LP destinations. The first form of the command moves the named requests to the LP destina- tion dest. Requests are request-ids as returned by lp. The second form moves all requests for destination dest1 to destination dest2; lp will then reject any new requests for dest1. Note that when moving requests, lpmove never checks the acceptance status (see accept(ADM)) of the new destination. Also, the request ID of the moved request is not changed so that users can still find their requests. The lpmove command will not move requests that have options (content type, form required, and so on) that cannot be handled by the new desti- nation. -q integer Specify the number of request structures you want to allo- cate. -a integer Specify the number of alert structures you want to allocate. By default, 40 empty alert structures are allocated in addi- tion to one for each printer or form on the system. Struc- tures will always be allocated for existing printers and forms. You can choose, however, to have more or fewer than the 40 extra, by using the -a option. For example, if you want only as many alert structures as you have printers and forms on your system, enter the following command: lpsched -a 0. -p integer Specify the number of print status structures you want to allocate. By default, 25 empty printer status structures are allocated in addition to one for each printer on the system. Structures will always be allocated for existing printers. You can choose, however, to have more or fewer than the 40 extra, by using the -p option. -s integer Specify the number of slow filters per printer that can be run simultaneously. Notes By default, the directory /usr/spool/lp is used to hold all the files used by the LP print service. This can be changed by setting the SPOOL- DIR environment variable to another directory before running lpsched. If you do this, you should populate the directory with the same files and directories found under /usr/spool/lp; the LP print service will not au- tomatically create them. Also, the SPOOLDIR variable must then be set before any of the other LP print service commands are run. Files /usr/spool/lp/* See also accept(ADM), enable(C), lp(C), lpstat(C), lpadmin(ADM)