monitor(1)

monitor1

Receive logging information from lpd

Usage

monitor [-u] [-t] [port]

Overview

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.

port

Use the specified port number.

Exit status

The following exit values are returned:

zero (0)

Successful completion.

non-zero (!=0)

An error occurred.

Releases

15 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 1.2
  2. 1.3
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1–4.0
  6. 5.0–13

-u since Debian 2.2 (Potato).

-N until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -Q until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -S until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -T until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -a until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -c until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -d until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -h until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -p until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -q until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -s until Debian 1.3 (Bo).

Author

Patrick Powell <[email protected]>.

History

LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. The LPRng developer mailing list is [email protected]; subscribe by visiting https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending mail to [email protected] with the word subscribe in the body.
The software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net

From lprng 3.8.B-9 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.