Hi all,
I've install LPRng (version 3.6.20) on our printer
server: a pentium Linux box with distribution Red Hat
6.2. This machine provides printer service to a number
of networked machines, most of them are Linux boxes
too. I find this software a great improvement over
classic BSD lpr system and thus, I'm in the process of
convincing users to switch to LPRng. However, some of
them are still reluctant to the change and so far are
stuck at the BSD system.
So I intend to make LPRng's behaviour toward
them as closed as possible to the BSD system. The
point is that some of them have complained about the
format returned by "lpq", which isn't similar to the
former. After reading the LPRng-HOWTO, I've almost got
it, by
including the following lines in /etc/lpd.conf:
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return_short_status=host1,host2
short_status_length#1
force_lpq_status=l=host1,host2
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This makes the long format the default for indicated
hosts and reduces the line count down to 1. All I need
now is to reduce it to 0. But if I write 0 instead of
1 or simply take out the number, the lpq reports
every status line. So how can I get rid of them but
still have the list of printer job?
By the way, every time I issue "lpc reread" to
make the lpd server aware of config modifications, the
daemon dies and I have to manually start it again. Do
you know why?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Cheers!
Jos� Manuel
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