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lpadmin(1M) lpadmin(1M)

use and should not be used by interface programs. lpsched (1M) notiﬁes users by mail when there is an

error in printing the request. If problems are detected that are likely to affect future print jobs, the inter-

face program should return a error value. This will make lpsched (1M) disable the printer so that other

pending print requests are not lost.

The cancel and status model interface programs perform the actual communication with the remote sys-

tem to cancel requests or get the status of requests. See rcancel(1M) and rlpstat (1M) for command line

arguments.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed.

LANG is not speciﬁed or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of

LANG.

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,

lpadmin behaves as if all internationali-

zation variables are set to "C" (see environ(5)).

EXAMPLES

Assuming an existing Hewlett-Packard laserjet printer named

lp1, it will use the

laserjet model

interface through

/dev/lp after the command:

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -plp1 -mlaserjet -v/dev/lp

Assuming a printer lp on a remote system system2, the command:

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -plp3 -v/dev/null -mrmodel -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

-ormsystem2 -orplp

causes the spool system to use the local line printer lp3 and the model rmodel. The spool system also

uses the model rcmodel to cancel remote requests and rsmodel to get status from system2.In

addition, the remote system name system2 and the remote printer lp are used.

The following command performs the same operation as above.

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -plp3 -v/dev/null -mrmodel -ormsystem2 -orplp

Here the default remote cancel model rcmodel and the default remote status model rsmodel are used.

WARNINGS

When installing remote printers, use the option

-ocmrcmodel instead of

-oci/usr/sbin/rcancel

to specify the method used to cancel remote requests. The option

-osmrsmodel should be used instead of -osi/usr/sbin/rlpstat

to specify the method used for

displaying remote status.

classes must not include remote printers.

HP-UX systems do not have the ability to distribute print jobs in

this way. Printing to a class of printers on a remote system (

systemB for example) must be accom-

plished by creating the class on the remote system, then identifying that class by using a command

resembling the following (though you might have to change some of the speciﬁc values shown in the

example):

lpadmin -plocal_name -ormsystemB -orpsystemB_class_name -v /dev/null

-mrmodel -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

FILES

/var/spool/lp/*

/var/adm/lp/*

/etc/lp/*

/usr/lib/lp/*