Moves spooled print jobs to another queue.
The qmov command moves spooled print jobs to another print queue. The print job to be moved is identified by job number, queue, or user name. The format of the command requires the queue where the job is to be moved to as the first argument and the name of the job to move as the second argument.
In AIX® 4.3.2 and above, qstatus was enhanced to improve the administration of local queues showing duplicate 3-digit job numbers. You can use the -W flag with the enq, qchk, lpstat, and lpq status commands to display more job number digits.
If your queue display shows duplicate 3-digit job numbers, use qchk -W to list job numbers with greater precision. You can then move a specific job.
For example, qchk might display job number 123 twice while, qchk -W would display job number 1123 and 2123. If you want to move job number 2123, specifying qmov -# 123, causes the qdaemon to move the first matching job number it finds in its internal list, which may be 1123. By having the additional information that the qstatus -W provides, you can move a specific job number.
Item | Description |
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-#JobNumber | Specifies the job number of the print job to be moved. |
-mNewQueue | Specifies the name of the destination print queue. |
-PQueue | Specifies the present print queue of the job to be moved. |
-uUser | Specifies the name of the user whose print jobs are to be moved. |
Attention RBAC users and Trusted AIX users: This command can perform privileged operations. Only privileged users can run privileged operations. For more information about authorizations and privileges, see Privileged Command Database in Security. For a list of privileges and the authorizations associated with this command, see the lssecattr command or the getcmdattr subcommand.
qmov -mlp0 -#280
qmov -mlp0 -Plp1
qmov -mlp0 -u mary
Item | Description |
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/usr/sbin/qdaemon | Contains the qdaemon daemon. |
/var/spool/lpd/qdir/* | Contains the job description files. |
/var/spool/lpd/stat/* | Contains information on the status of the devices. |
/var/spool/qdaemon/* | Contains the temporary copies of enqueued files. |
/etc/qconfig | Contains the configuration file. |
/etc/qconfig.bin | Contains the digested, binary version of the /etc/qconfig file. |