Printer management

filter6.2
UNIX only: Program to translate Enterprise Server native codes to printer codes that the pdaemon6.2 program uses.
lp6.2
UNIX only: System spooler interface for the pdaemon6.2 program.
pdaemon6.2
UNIX only: Daemon process to print requests from the environment. The user root must start this program.

The options that you can use to call the printer daemon:

  • –v: Print version and porting information of the daemon.
  • –k: Kill the running printer daemon.
  • –f: Start daemon as foreground process (for debugging).
  • –d n: Print debugging information to stderr. The greater the value of n, the more information is output.
  • –r: Remove the lock file and start daemon. Use this option in rc.start.
  • –h: Print the previous options.