Thanks to everone's suggestions. Here is what I ended up doing. This command gets all print queue info for any queues with 5 or more pending jobs. I also put it in a script where it emails me the output, and run the script from cron twice a day.
note: the "awk '/:$/ {print ""};{print}'" inserts a blank line in betwen every lpc stat entry, so I can use the grep -p later.
/usr/sbin/lpc stat | awk '/:$/ {print ""};{print}' | /sbin/grep -p "entries in spool area" | /sbin/grep -p -v -E -w '2 entries|3 entries|4 entries'
RichGlazier_at_netscape.net (Rich Glazier) wrote:
>5.1A PK4
>
>Does anyone have an automated way in Tru64 to have information on backlogged print queues sent to you? I am trying to get the entire section from print queues with pending jobs in lpc stat output.
>
>I am trying to extract the entire print queue section for only those with a backlog (entries in he spool area). I have tried to grep with the Tru64 special paragraph delimiter (-p), or awk between lines ('/something/,/something/'), or use multiline sed output, but I'm not quite there. Perl is not on this machine. From the lpc stat output example below, I would want lp1: plus the four lines below it as output. Any thoughts?
>
>
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>lp0:
> printer is on remote host freddy with name LPDPRT1
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> no entries
> no daemon present
>lp1:
> printer is on remote host lp1 with name text
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 59 entries in spool area
> no daemon present
>lp1pc:
> printer is on remote host lp1 with name raw
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> no entries
> no daemon present
>
>
>Thanks!!
>
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