wow,
great feature, is it mentioned in the HOWTO ?
It should be interesting for most people working on large scale
environments, especially when you have a couple of linux pcs instead of
one big server doing the spooling...
thanks for the great support on this list Patrick !!!
Christoph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 2 10:39:22 2000
> > Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:27:01 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: LPRng: Failover
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --> http://www.larsshack.org/
>
> You can use:
>
> lp:lp=pr@host1,host2
>
> OR
>
> lp:rm=host1,host2
>
> This does what you want, I believe.
>
> h4: {92} % lpq -Pt1@h1,localhost
> Printer: t1@h4 'Test Printer : 1'
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Status: job 'papowell@h4+746' removed at 17:11:05.416
>
> This has been in LPRng for a long time.
>
> Patrick
>
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