MONITOR

MONITOR

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS EXIT STATUS SEE ALSO HISTORY AUTHOR

NAME

monitor - receive logging information from LPD

SYNOPSIS

monitor [ ''-u''? [ ''-t''? [ port?

DESCRIPTION

The monitor program is a template for a printer status monitoring program. It will open the specified TCP and/or UDP port, and then wait for accounting or other information to be sent. It prints this information on it standard output.

OPTIONS

-u

wait for connections on the UDP port.

-t

wait for connections on the TCP port.

ort

Use the specified port number.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

zero (0)

Successful completion.

non-zero (!=0)

An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1).

HISTORY

LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. The LPRng mailing list is lprng@lprng.com; subscribe by sending mail to lprng-request@lprng.com with the word subscribe in the body. The software is available from ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng.

AUTHOR

Patrick Powell