Quoting David Harel, from the post of Wed, 19 Feb: > Ok, > > Unplug works but it is clumsy. Here is a better one. I use the command > modprobe with -r printer to release it and omitting the -r to reload it. > trivial, isn't it? > Since this is a privileged command I had to wrap it with a small program > I wrote in C that does just what we said and to it's executable I set > the setuid bit. Now it resides in /usr/local/bin and everyone can use > it. (in my case only me but using different user id - schizophrenic).
tried sudo? the question is ofcourse why disconnect a printer at all. it's easier to pass print jobs via the net to remote queues than to keep stealing the printer from desk to desk :) -- Have you seen my fish? Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
