I have noticed odd behavior with "as" option.
If I set "achk" and as=|/some/filter and the contents of filter
are
#!/bin/sh
exit 35
then the print job is aborted as expected.
However, if the filter is
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
then nothing happens. lpq shows that filter exited successfully but the
file is not printed for some reason. When I run lpq -lll, all I see is:
Status: accounting at start at 15:22:37.770
Status: Filter_file: pgm '|/home/akopps/bin/filter' exited with status 'JSUCC' at
15:22:37.868
Status: opening device 'paperjam%9100' at 15:22:37.868
and then it just sits there. Once I remove the "as" option or change
it to just a standard accounting file entry format, printing works
fine. In future, I hope to create a filter script that checks the
quota database and if the user is over quota return error status
(which I assume the "as" entry was meant to use used for). I tend to
think that this is LPRng bug. I have tested this on LPRng-3.2.26
running on Solaris 2.6 and it seems to work fine. Here is my printcap:
paperjam-test
:cm=Printer
:ifhp=model=hp4050
:lp=paperjam%9100
:of=/opt/local/packages/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp
:if=/opt/local/packages/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp
:sd=/var/spool/lprng/%P
:as=|/home/akopps/bin/filter
:ae=END
:achk
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