Thank you very much! That is exactly what I needed. I haven't used the
print spooler beyond mundane printing tasks and thought it would be a
possibility.
Thanks again,
-Tom
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Hi Tom,
that should be quite easy :-) We do something similar, using the queues to
push stuff in an oracle database etc. All you need is a script that reads
from STDIN and writes into your database or whatever and exit with '0' for
success or '1' for error. In the printcap you have to define a pseudo
device 'lp=/dev/null' and the script you are using as a filter
'filter=/path/to/your/script'. This should be it (imho)...
best regards
~christoph
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello folks,
A look through dejanews didn't give me the answer I was looking for so I
will ask here. If this has been covered already I would appreciate some
direction to that coverage.
Has anyone used LPRng as a generic job spooler? What I would like to do
is have LPRng (some spooling mechanism that I don't have to write from
scratch) manage a job queue in which the jobs are database updates on a
remote machine. Since I can't use ODBC on this machine I have written
perl scripts that will perform the updates. This part is tested and works
fine. What is now needed is a spooler that will detect success/failure and
possibly resubmit X number of times at Y interval in case of network outage
or other impediment.
If anyone knows of documentation specific to using LPRng this way I would
really appreciate it (so I don't have to reinvent the wheel).
Thanks in advance,
-Tom
Tom deLombarde
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FTM Development
PO Box 269
Shelby, Ohio 44875-0269
http://www.blackflute.com/
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