On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, tony mollica wrote:
> Hi. Just browsing through the list and found the following
> excerpt from your message:
>
> >It's like the input filter is never being called. If I set the printcap
> >entry so it remote prints to our network printer, like so:
> >beeper:\
> > :if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
> > :lp=:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\
> > :rm=(the ip address):\
> > :rp=nimrod_2:
>
>
> I don't think this will work, regardless of what
> type of script you use for a filter, the reason
> being the following from the printing HOW-TO:
> (the first sentence is the clue, and easily
> overlooked. Someone previously brought this to
> my attention after several days of fighting with
> the remote filtering thing.)
>
> {
> 10.8. Running an if for remote printers
>
> One oddity of lpd is that the if is not run for remote printers. If
> you find that you need to run an if, you can do so by setting up a
> double queue and requeueing the job. As an example, consider this
> printcap:
>
> lj-5:remote-hplj:\
> :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5:\
> :if=/usr/lib/lpd/filter-lj-5:
> lj-5-remote:lp=/dev/null:sh:rm=printer.name.com:\
> :rp=raw:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5-raw:
>
> in light of this filter-lj-5 script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> gs <options> -q -dSAFER -sOutputFile=- - | \
> lpr -Plj-5-remote -U$5
>
> The -U option to lpr only works if lpr is run as daemon, and it sets
> the submitter's name for the job in the resubmitted queue correctly.
> You should probably use a more robust method of getting the username,
> since in some cases it is not argument 5. See the man page for
> printcap.
>
> }
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> tony mollica
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Thanks! Yes, it does help; answers some problems I've been having.
Kent
