NAME

cjlist - dump out GNUspool jobs to directory


SYNOPSIS

cjlist [ -D dir ] [ -e n ] [ -u ] [ -s ] [ -f ] [ -m ] job file outfile workdir


DESCRIPTION

cjlist converts GNUspool job files held in the spool directory to an executable shell script which may be used to recreate them. This may be useful for backup purposes or for one stage in upgrading from one release of GNUspool to another.

The jobs are copied into the backup directory workdir, and the generated shell script file outfile refers to files in that directory.

cjlist understands the format of the saved job file for versions of GNUspool going back to release 18, and when presented with a saved file, will attempt to work out from the format which release it relates to. If required, it will skip apparent errors in the job file also.

In addition to options, three arguments are always supplied to cjlist.

Job list file

This is the file containing the attributes of the jobs, spshed_jfile in the spool directory, by default /var/spool/gnuspool, or as relocated by re-specifying SPOOLDIR.

Output file

This file is created by cjlist to contain the executable shell script which may be used to create the jobs.

Backup directory

This directory is used to hold the job data.

Note that saved jobs make use of the -U option to spr(1) to set the ownership correctly but do not attempt to use the -E and -o options to set external queue or originating hosts.


OPTIONS

-D directory

specifies the source directory for the jobs and job file rather than the current directory. It can be specified as $SPOOLDIR or ${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnuspool} etc and the environment and/or /etc/gnuspool.conf will be interrogated to interpolate the value of the environment variable given.

If you use this, don't forget to put single quotes around it thus:

 cjlist -D '${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnuspool}' ...

otherwise the shell will try to interpret the $ constructs and not cjlist.

-e n

Tolerate n errors of the kinds denoted by the other options before giving up trying to convert the file.

-f

Ignore format errors (invalid form types etc) in the saved job file up to the limit of errors given by the -e option.

-m

Create ``missing'' dummy jobs where the job file refers to jobs not in the saved directory.

-s

Ignore file size errors in the saved job file (up to the number of total errors given by the -e option).

-u

Do not reject the save job file if it contains invalid user names.

This may be necessary where the job file is corrupted and cjlist cannot work out which version it is.


SEE ALSO

cplist(8), setspdir(8), spuconv(8).


AUTHOR

John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.