Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi there, I got a problem with lpstat command in AIX and hope that anyone can help.

I need to retrieve detail pending print entries' information by issuing lpstat, the information should contain the printing entry's insertion time, hence I use 'lpstat -t', but I found that the print queue name is truncated down to 7 characters in the output.

PRTQUE0 hp@RT DOWN
QUEUED 464 /tmp/MARP usr001 grp001
04/17/09 11:21:32 1 15 8 1
/tmp/MARP0014.230717957_15.ps
The print queue name is actually '*PRTQUE01*' but in the output it got truncated.

Does anyone know how I can get full print queue name in such case?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Have you tried "lpstat -W" to get a wide listing (in AIX)?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

thanks Spook, I've tried 'lpstat -W' but it can not provide me the time of pending peint entries. And from AIX manual, -W and -t could not take effect when they are used together. The first one in their combination take effect.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

You are right. Unfortunately, this means that you will have to roll your own using a shell script. You could run a "lpstat -rW", which you feed into a do loop, and then run a "lpstat -t -p queue" for each line of output. You will then have to extract the data that you want from the "lpstat -rW" and the "lpstat -t" commands and combine into a decent report.

Another option would be to roll your own using "lsallq -c" instead of the "lpstat -rW". We found this was faster; especially when users turn off printers and lpstat/enq takes several minutes to generate a listing.

It takes even more work, but our final solution used the expect language to generate a listing. This way we were able to run all queue queries in parallel, rather than sequentially, and with a 5 second timeout, so that the script always finishes quickly.
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