NET 4000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.4.7: Superuser, Print Job, Spooling
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The line printer daemon (lpd) is the older print management daemon for linux systems. Although cups has replaced lpd for the most part, most lpd commands are also supported by the cupsd daemon. The following table describes commands associated with lpd and. Send a job to the print queue (putting print jobs into the queue is called spooling). Common lpr options include: lpr lpc lpq lprm lpstat. R removes the job from the queue after printing. W sets the page width of a printable document. Subcommands for lpc include: status shows the current state of a printer. clean removes all files from a print queue. restart attempts to restart a printer daemon for a printer. This command displays job numbers and users who own the print jobs. Specify a username or a job number to see information about specific print jobs or print jobs for a specific user.
