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The HPDPS commands create, modify, and delete objects, and may also return status and other information about the objects. Additionally, there are commands that serve as utilities.

As a general guideline, commands can be sub-divided into those primarily for users and those primarily for administrators. Administrator capability is required to run the administrator commands. Table 3-2 “HPDPS User Commands ” lists the user HPDPS commands and Table 3-3 “HPDPS Administrator Commands ” lists the administrator HPDPS commands. All HPDPS commands begin with pd.

You may need to be authorized to use HPDPS commands. For more information on authorization, see “Authorization ” in this chapter as well as the HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide.

NOTE: For a complete description of each HPDPS command, see the appropriate manpage. Enter:
man CommandName

The examples used in this chapter include both commands primarily for users and those primarily for administrators. They illustrate the syntactical features described regardless of which particular command was chosen for the example.

Table 3-2 HPDPS User Commands

Command

Description

pdls

Lists selected attribute values for objects.

pdmsg

Displays the text and description of an HPDPS message.

pdmod

Modifies (or sets) the attribute values of one or more previously submitted jobs or documents within a job.

pdpr

Creates a single print job, consisting of one or more documents, and submits a job to a logical printer. The printer can be specified or defaulted.

pdq

Queries the status of one or more jobs in a queue.

pdresubmit

Resubmits a previously submitted job (that is pending, timed-out, retained, or held) to a specified logical printer on the same or different spooler.

pdrm

Cancels (removes) one or more previously submitted print jobs.

 

Table 3-3 HPDPS Administrator Commands

Command

Description

pdclean

Removes all jobs from the specified server, printer, or queue.

pdcreate

Creates logical printer, physical printer, queue, initial-value-job, and initial-value-document objects.

pddcesetup

Used to configure DCE information for HPDPS.

pddelete

Deletes logical printer, physical printer, queue, initial-value-job, initial-value-document, server, and job objects.

pddisable

Disables the specified server, printer, or queue from accepting print requests. Logs also can be disabled.

pdenable

Allows the specified server, printer, or queue to accept print requests. Logs also can be enabled.

pdgwcfg

Configures HPDPS Gateway Printers in a Basic Environment.

pdpause

Pauses a pending, held, or currently printing job, physical printer, server, or queue.

pdpromote

Advances the specified job to the beginning of a queue. The job is then scheduled on the next appropriate printer available.

pdresume

Resumes a currently paused job, physical printer, server, or queue.

pdset

Sets (or modifies) the attribute values of one or more existing objects, including jobs and documents.

pdshutdown

Shuts down the specified server after all jobs have printed, after all currently printing jobs have printed, or immediately.

pdstartclient

Used to start the HPDPS client daemon.

pdstartspl

Used to create or restart an HPDPS spooler.

pdstartsuv

Used to create or restart an HPDPS supervisor.

pdstopd

Used to stop the HPDPS client daemon.

 

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