> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 23 02:33:34 2002
> From: "Arie J. Gerszt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:35:10 +0100
>
> Hi
>
> I am looking vor an LPR solution for the following problem:
>
> In a school with lots of computer rooms and printers we would like
> to have 1 central printer server. All incoming printer jobs should
> be redirected upon the sender's ip address to the appropiate printer,
> so that a user never has to select the right printer.
>
> Can this be solved through lpr?
>
> Thank you
> Arie
>
This is done using the 'chooser' and 'force_ipaddr_hostname' function or facility:
lp:lp=/dev/null
:chooser=|/this/is/the/chooser/script
:force_ipaddr_hostname
The force_ipaddr_hostname forces the hostname value in the
control file to be the IP address of the job originator.
The control file is provided in the CONTROL_FILE environment
variable and the -H command line argument. You can now do something like:
# perl script...
my @cf = split("\n",$ENV{CONTROL_FILE} );
my $ipaddr;
foreach (@cf){
if( /^H/ ){
$ipaddr = $_;
$ipaddr =~ s/^HIPADDR//;
last;
}
}
# now you have the IPAddress
my $choices = { 10.0.0.1 => "pr1@server", ... }
my $choice = $choices->{$ipaddr}
print "$choice\n";
--- the usually error handling, defaults, etc. are left
as an exercise for the reader.
Patrick
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