monitor(1)

💖 monitor — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, so this is monitor(1), a lil page from the monitor command section of the manual. pull up a chair, grab a snack, we're doing this 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

monitor — receive logging information from LPD. that's the whole vibe. it listens, it prints, it's giving very attentive bestie energy 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

monitor [ -u ] [ -t ] [ port ]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, the monitor program is a template for a printer status monitoring program. it's the blueprint, the blueprint-iest blueprint. ✨

what it does: it opens the specified TCP and/or UDP port, and then it just… waits. patiently. main character patience. 🌸 it waits for accounting or other information to be sent over, and when that info arrives, it prints it on its standard output. that's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? iconic. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -u — wait for connections on the UDP port. lowkey just vibing on UDP 🦋
• -t — wait for connections on the TCP port. TCP girlies, this one's for you 💅
• port — use the specified port number. like, the actual number. pick one bestie, you got this 🔥

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✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

the following exit values are returned, and yes we're listing them both, no skips:

• zero (0) — successful completion. ate. no crumbs. ✨
• non-zero (!=0) — an error occurred. 😭 not the error. it happens to the best of us.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these too, they're all part of the family fr fr:

lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1), lprng_certs(1), lprng_index_certs(1).

(and yes, lpd.conf(5) is in there twice — that's not a typo, that's canon, don't @ me 💀)

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.com> 💜 the OG. respect the name. 👑

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✨ HISTORY ✨

so LPRng is an enhanced printer spooler system, and its functionality is similar to the Berkeley LPR software. that's the lore. 📜

the LPRng developer mailing list is lprng-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; you can subscribe by visiting https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or by sending mail to lprng-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word subscribe in the body. (yes, in the body. not the subject. the body. iykyk 😌)

the software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net 🌈

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aaaand that's the page!! 🎀 this was brought to you by LPRng, dated 2006-12-09 — and honestly bestie, this manual page has been serving the same energy since 2006 and it's still eating. go forth and monitor those ports. bye bye!! 💖✨🦋🌸🫶