HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users

Finding and Identifying Jobs

only provides information about the speciﬁed job Spool2:2934700005.

• If you want to ﬁnd a job or jobs sent by a user to any logical printer in

a speciﬁc spooler, you can query the spooler with the pdls command.

For example, to query jobs submitted by fljones that are contained

in the spooler Spool2, enter:

pdls -U -f user-name=*fljones Spool2:

This command returns all of the jobs submitted by fljones that are

in any queue in spooler Spool2, or that are contained in Spool2 in

either the retained or timed-out states. HPDPS displays

information similar to the following:

Current Intervening Printer Printers

Job ID Name State Jobs Requested Assigned

--- ----------------- ------ ----------- ------------ --------- --------

3 Spool2:2934700005 file1 retained LogPrt2

9 Spool2:2934700011 file2 processing 0 LogPrt4 PhyPrt4

• If you want to ﬁnd the job or jobs sent by a user, but you do not know

whether the job has printed, or to which logical printer, queue, or

spooler the job was submitted, you can query all spoolers in the

distributed print environment.

Enter the following command:

pdls -U -f user-name=*fljones \*:

Including the backslash before the asterisk prevents the shell from

interpreting this metacharacter.