You can remove the outputfile parameter completely, it really isn't
needed. Now in the perl script just replace the lpr with /dev/ttyS0 and
see if that works. Or you can setup LPR to use your serial printer,
either way.
Thanks,
Derrick
On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:24 AM, John Puzon wrote:
> Derrick,
>
> Yes it created a file and it was empty.��Just like what i did before.
> The browser displayed the message without errors.��But when i tried
> redirecting the outputfile to /dev/ttyS0, nothing.��When i ran the
> print.pl from the shell it prints: "lpr: error - scheduler not
> responding!"
>
>
> -John
>
> >John,
> >
> >Try this simple script called print.pl
> >
> >!/usr/bin/perl
> >open(OUTPUT, "| lpr");
> >print OUTPUT "Hello from Perl.\n";
> >close OUTPUT
> >
> >and create this simple cfm page called testperl.cfm
> >
> ><html>
> ><head>
> ><title>Test Perl Print page</title>
> ></head>
> ><body bgcolor="#ffffff">
> >This is a test of the print.pl script using cfexecute
> >
> ><cfexecute name="/var/www/html/print.pl"
> >outputfile="/var/www/html/testoutput.txt" timeout="1"></cfexecute>
> >
> ><p>Test Should be complete</p>
> ></body>
> ></html>
> >
> >Now even though it creates a file called testoutput.txt, the file
> >should be empty. Make sure that you change the path to match your
> >directory. Now this simple perl file ran without any problems on my
> >machine. I hope you have similar luck.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Derrick
> >
> >
> >
> >On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:16 PM, John Puzon wrote:
> >
> >>
>
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