Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 205

LPD(8)
MAINTENANCE COMMANDS LPD(8)
FILES
4 Trofl Font S. Name of the font file to use instead of the default.
W Width. Changes the page width (in characters) used bypr(l) and the text filters.
I
Indent. The number of characters to indent the output by (in ascii).
U Unlink. Name of file to remove upon completion of printing.
N File name. The name of the file which is being printed, or a blank for the standard input
(when lpr is invoked in a pipeline).
If a file can not be opened, a message will be placed in the log file (normally the console). Lpd
will try up to 20 times to reopen a file it expects
to
be
there, after which it will skip the file to be
printed.
Lpd uses jlock(2) to provide exclusive access to the lock file and to prevent multiple deamons from
becoming active simultaneously. If the daemon should be killed or die unexpectedly, the lock file
need not be removed. The lock file is kept in a readable ASCII form and contains two lines. The
first is
the process id of the daemon and the second is the control file name of the current job
being printed. The second line is updated to re8ect the current status of lpd for the programs
Ipq(l)
and
lprm(l).
/etc/printcap
/usr/spool/·
/dev /Ip·
/ etc /hosts.equiv
printer description file
spool directories
line printer devices
lists machine names allowed printer access
SEE ALSO
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Ipc(8), pac(8), Ipr(l), Ipq(l), Iprm(l), printcap(S)
-I.£BSD Line Printer Spooler MtJnutJl
Last change: 28 October 1983
Sun Release 1.1