>>>>> "Nils" == Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nils> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: >>> lprng has removed the possibility to automatically remove Files >>> after printing. This is however necessary to remove spooled >>> jobs. How do you work around this problem? >> I'm not sure what you mean. Files in the lprng spool directories >> do get automatically deleted after printing...so you must be >> talking about something else. Nils> I must confess that it was long ago I tried to set up printing Nils> from Windows clients with samba. It worked by copying the Nils> to-be-printed files to /tmp on unix and issuing a lpr Nils> command. I then was puzzled about the many big files in /tmp Nils> with strange names until I got the idea to add a "-r" switch to Nils> the lpr command to remove files after printing. It worked from Nils> then on and I never tried to setup anything and only remembered Nils> that the "-r" switch was vital for operation with samba. The latest lprng ignores this switch and the -s (symlink) switch, but accepts them now. Too many people were having problems with stupid programs (including the Oracle database) that made bad requests (and couldn't be set to do anything else) to the printer subsystem. -r isn't used because lprng is completely network based. (i.e. even on a local machine the file will not just be copied from a location on disk). This is a security feature. -s is similar. Ahh another note. One fo LPRng's `features' is a much heightened security over the basic lpr. More informative output from lpq requests. Easier running modification of the daemon. Better support for filters. (I switched a bunch of machines over from different printing systems lp, lpr based. The users were a little thrown off by the different output format, but it made dealing with the printers from machine to machine much easier). Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @ http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach
