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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Question about spooler Post 302260444 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 20th of November 2008 01:18:40 PM
Old 11-20-2008
/var/spool is one common place.
But the file may not be there - once you cancel the print job the file is marked for deletion.

Does the software not have some kind of 'I want a copy of the file' option?
 

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lpana(1M)																 lpana(1M)

NAME
lpana - display LP spooler performance analysis information SYNOPSIS
dest] DESCRIPTION
displays LP spooler performance information, which system administrators can use to optimize the configuration of the entire spooler sys- tem. Options recognizes one option: Choose dest as the printer or the class of printers. If dest is a printer, the performance analysis information is dis- played for that specific printer. If dest is a class of printers, the performance analysis information is displayed for the printers that are members of the class. By default, displays the performance analysis information for all printers and/or classes. examines for the following items: Average waiting time from when job is spooled until start of printing. Standard Deviation for waiting time. Average printing time from start to end of job. Standard Deviation for printing time. Average of number of bytes printed per request. Standard Deviation for number of bytes. Sum of bytes printed for all requests (in kilobytes). Total number of requests since logging started. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables determines the language in which messages are displayed. Setting causes the destination names exceeding 14 characters to be wrapped to multiple lines. This will ensure proper indentation of all the other displayed fields. WARNINGS
performs its operation on the local system only. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. FILES
SEE ALSO
lp(1), lpstat(1), lpadmin(1M), lpsched(1M). lpana(1M)
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