Script to show Down print queues???

[DTicky]

Help... I need to write a script that only show print queues that are down. I have a function that show all the print queues:

function queue_status {
/usr/bin/enq -e "$@" | /usr/bin/awk '
$1 ~ /:$/ { print $0; next}
{ if (substr($0,1,7) != " &quot print substr($0,1,24); }'} ; queue_status '-As'

Unfortunately this prints all the queues and doesn't stop at the end of the page. Thanks, Donna

 

[Salem]

> /usr/bin/enq
Paste the output of this command - showing both up and down queues

 

[lblauen]

If all you want is the down queues do this

lpstat -W | grep -i DOWN

you could redirect this to a file or your screen.

 

[DTicky]

Salem thanks for your response but I don't know how to do that. I don't really know scripts.

lbauen thanks for your response also. Unfortunately since many of the the remote hosts are not logged in this takes a long time. The script I have responds quicly but shows nore that I want.

Please help.
Thanks again

 

[Salem]

There's nothing to stop you typing in fragments of the script you have at the command line to see what each part does.

So you type in

    /usr/bin/enq -e -As

and you paste whatever comes back in this forum.

Then perhaps we can start to make sense of what the '| awk...' bit it up to.