I'm setting up a new printing architecture at <random company X>, and we'd
like to make sure people can continue printing when our primary print
server fails.
We will shortly be setting up a duplicate print server (one that is
synchronized against the master nightly using rsync), but I haven't been
able to figure out how to do any sort of failover with the LPRng clients.
All of our client systems are running lpr in "client-only" mode -- no local
lpd; all jobs go straight to the server. I'd like the clients to do
something like this:
IF the primary print server is available THEN
print to the primary print server
ELSE IF the secondary print server is available THEN
print to the secondary print server
ELSE
die gracefully
Is it possible to do anything like this?
-- Lars
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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --> http://www.larsshack.org/
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