SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

rlprm uses TCP/IP to remove jobs you own from printers anywhere on a network. Unlike lprm, it does not require that the remote printers be explicitly known to the local system (traditionally through /etc/printcap), and thus is considerably more flexible and requires less administration.

rlprm can be used anywhere a traditional lprm might be used, and is backwards compatible with traditional BSD lprm. If rlprm is invoked as lprm, it preserves all known lprm semantics, with the exceptions of those semantics mentioned in BUGS / LIMITATIONS below.

rlprm can be set up, installed, and used in the same two ways as rlpr(1) (that is, either with or without the rlprd(8) proxy daemon). Please see rlpr(1) for details, and to see whether you will need to use the rlprd(8) proxy daemon or not.

OPTIONS

Environment/Setup

--debug

Print gobs of debugging information.

-N, --no-bind

Don't try to bind to privileged port before connecting to lpd. Please see the CONFIGURING A PROXY section in rlpr(1) for information on use of this option.

--port=number

Select an alternate port (instead of 7290) to connect to, if using rlprd. Usually not needed.

-H, --printhost=host

Select the host to print to (used with -P).

Instead of using -H, one can specify the hostname directly including it with the printer name with the printer@hostname syntax.

-P, --printer=printername, --queue=printername

Select the printer to print to (used with -H).

-X, --proxy=proxyhost, --proxyhost=proxyhost

Select the proxy host to use, if necessary.

--timeout=seconds

Set the inactivity timer. If the connection hangs for more than seconds seconds, then rlprm will give up. Use the special value `-1' to wait forever. Default timeout is 3 seconds.

-V, --version

Print version and exit.

Behavior

-

Remove all of your jobs. Note that this option must be specified immediately following the end of all other options. This option is a mutant supported only for compatibility. Instead of using this, include your username as the first argument to rlprm.

-q, --quiet, --silent

Quiet mode - stay quiet (except for fatal errors). See BUGS / LIMITATIONS for problems using rlprm in silent-mode operation.

FILES

~/.rlprrc         Personal printer/host database
/etc/hosts.lpd    Host-based security on printhost
/etc/hosts.equiv  Host-based security on printhost
/etc/passwd       Personal identification
/etc/rlprrc       System-wide printer/host database

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