Managing Print Queues The pqlist command lists all (Web design online)
Managing Print Queues The pqlist command lists all of the print queues available to you on the specified server. If you do not specify a fileserver on the command line using the -S option, or a login name and password, these will be taken from the default entry in your ~/.nwclient file: # pqlist -S vbrew_f1 -U guest -n Server: ALES_F1 Print queue name Queue ID TEST AA02009E Q2 EF0200D9 NPI223761_P1 DA03007C Q1 F1060004 I-DATA 0D0A003B NPI223761_P3 D80A0031 Our example shows a list of the print queues available to the guest user on the ALES_F1 fileserver.88 To view the print jobs on a print queue, use the pqstat command. It takes the print queue name as an argument and lists all of the jobs in that queue. You may optionally supply another argument indicating how many of the jobs in the queue you’d like to list. The following sample output has been compressed a bit to fit the width of this book’s page: $ pqstat -S ALES_F1 NPI223761_P1 Server: ALES_F1 Queue: NPI223761_P1 Queue ID: 6A0E000C Seq Name Description Status Form Job ID 1 TOTRAN LyX document -proposal.lyx Active 0 02660001 We can see just one print job in the queue, owned by user TOTRAN. The rest of the options include a description of the job, its status, and its job identifier. The pqrm command is used to remove print jobs from a specified print queue. To remove the job in the queue we’ve just obtained the status of, we’d use: $ pqrm -S ALES_F1 NPI223761_P1 02660001 The command is pretty straightforward but is clumsy to use in a hurry. It would be a worthwhile project to write a basic script to simplify this operation. NetWare Server Emulation There are two free software emulators for NetWare fileservers under Linux. lwared was developed by Ales Dryak and mars_nwe was developed by Martin Stover. Both of these packages provide elementary NetWare fileserver emulation under Linux, allowing NetWare clients to mount Linux directories exported as NetWare volumes. While the lwared server is simpler to configure, the mars_nwe server is more fully featured. The installation and configuration of these packages is beyond the scope of this chapter, but both are described in the IPX-HOWTO. It looks like the system administrators had been sampling some of the Virtual Brewery’s wares before they chose some of those print queue names. Hopefully your print queue names are more meaningful!