lpinfo Help

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Information about misc. Unix command line printing command options and information about prf.
Sorry, no on-line documentation is available yet for NT stuff.

Please send email to trouble if you have any questions or problems about UNIX printing or lpinfo itself.

*** Top Frame ***

There are three frames that are displayed. The top one is displayed when you start up and has the following options:

• Help Button: Click here shows this page - surprise! ;-)
  
  
• Power User: Click here to see some additional functions (covered below).
  
  
• Admin Mode: See comments below in Admin Section ...
  
  
• Show Button: Click here to show the selected printers in the middle frame.
  
  
• Select box: Click here to show printers in the selected building.

Note: the middle frame at startup has misc. lpinfo information. The numbers on the far right are the lpinfo version, and then number of times that admin mode has been activated, number of times lpinfo has been started, and total number of times lpinfo has been asked to do something (ex: queue status).

*** Middle Frame ***

*** Bottom Frame ***

When the queue status is displayed here, you will also see:

• Check queue status every 5 seconds button: When clicked, this will continuousely re-generate that bottom frame every 5 seconds with an updated queue status until you click on the `Stop' button.
  
  
• More (Less) Queue Info button: You can click on this to display more (or less) information about the queue status.
  
  
• Print Test Page: This does what it suggests ... sends a test page to that printer and then it will auto-display the queue status for you until you hit the `Stop' button.

*** Power User ***

As mentioned above, clicking on Power User provides additional functions.

• You can specify an optional override substring, and only those printers with that case-insensitive string will be displayed. Note that Perl regular expressions can also be used. And if you specify something here, then the building location selection will be ignored.
  
  
• There are three radio buttons that influence the output of the middle frame when you click on the Show button. `List only' is the same as what is shown in `Normal User' mode which simply lists the printer name/description/aliases and this is quite fast (even with a 1,000 printers! ;-) `queue status' will actually do an `lpq -s' of every requested printer and display the results. This can take a little bit of time if a lot of printers are requested. `Active/Broke queues' is similar to `queue status' ... but only displays those printers that are either active or broke (i.e. non-green condition). This is useful for seeing `interesting stuff'
  
  
• Click on the Admin Stuff button to display a list of admin functions in the middle frame - discussed below.
  
  
• Click on `Normal User' to go back to the original display

*** Admin Stuff ***

This is mostly stuff of interest to admins, and the following is currently there:

• Admin Mode: Clicking here will prompt you for a username/password; and assuming you are in the lprngadm group (controlled via the .htaccess file in the LPRng httpd directory), a new window will pop up that looks the same; except a flashing red `admin mode on' will be present. This allows you to remove any print job from any LPRng print server.
  
  
• LPRng Technical Info: Brings up the heavy duty LPRng technical info! ;-)
  
  
• Printing Info/Standards: Shows info on printing procedures/standards.
  
  
• Check LPRng Print Servers: Checks the health of the LPRng print servers.
  
  
• Show Active/Broke Queues: Will display a file that is autogenerated every hour showing all queues that are either active or broke. Quite helpful for looking to see what may need some Sysadmin attention.
  
  
• Mis-configured NT Queues: Shows a comparison of plotter.data to a dump of the NT Print Registry.