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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to kill printer PIDs except the spooler PID? Post 303025027 by bakunin on Tuesday 23rd of October 2018 07:06:01 AM
Old 10-23-2018
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Originally Posted by djflu
Thanks a lot for the info, but I don't know how to isolate PIDs older than 72h
What RudiC was suggesting (and, if you would have undergone the effort to actually read the man page, as suggested, you'd have found that out yourself) was that ps has a -o-option which you can use to tailor its output to exactly what you need. You might want to consider using this instead of the -eaf you use right now.

Using this device you can use the keyword RudiC gave you to get the number of seconds since the process was started. "3 days" are then a matter of multiplying 86400 (the number of seconds in a day, 24x60x60) by 3 - an exercise left to the interested reader - and testing against this threshhold value.

I hope this helps.

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

conv_lpd

conv_lpd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      conv_lpd(1M)

NAME

       conv_lpd - convert LPD configuration

SYNOPSIS

       conv_lpd [-c printers | -c printcap]  [-n] file

DESCRIPTION

       conv_lpd  converts   LPD  printer  configuration information from  file to a printers.conf or a	printcap file (see printers.conf(4)). file
       specifies the name of the input file, and can be either in printers.conf or  printcap format. If  file is in  printers.conf format, it con-
       verts it to a printcap file. If	file is in  printcap format, it converts it to a printers.conf file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -c printers | -c printcap       Specifies the type of output file produced by the conversion. -c printers converts to a printers.conf file.
				       -c printcap converts to a printcap file. -c printers is the default.

       -n			       Preserves the namelist during the conversion.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       file	The file to be converted.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Converting a printcap file to a  printers.conf file.

       The following example converts a  printcap file to a  printers.conf file.

       example% conv_lpd /etc/printcap

       Example 2: Converting a	printcap file to a printers.conf file and preserving the namelist.

       The following example converts a  printcap file to a printers.conf file and preserves the namelist.

       example% conv_lpd -c printers -n /etc/printcap

       Example 3: Converting a	printers.conf file to a  printcap file and preserving the namelist.

       The following example converts a  printers.conf file to a  printcap file and preserves the namelist.

       example% conv_lpd -c printcap -n /etc/printers.conf

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/printers.conf      System printer configuration database.

       /etc/printcap	       SunOS 4.x printer capability database.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWpcu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lpset(1M), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    9 Sep 1996							      conv_lpd(1M)
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