I guess you should look at the lineprinter.scr filter. This filter must
send the job to standard out. Perhaps the filter is sending the output
to a file.
Then, I believe you really need to make your lineprinter queue a bounce
queue.
Here is what I have for a bounce queue. A bounce queue, as I understand it,
or at least as I am using the term here, is a queue which filters the job,
but then sends the job elsewhere for actual printing. I believe what you are
doing is better suited to just sending an unfiltered file to the remote
machine.
This queue works. It takes a postscript file, converts it to a binary file, and
then sends it to a raw queue on another machine. The local machine is
jhammer6 and the remote machine is hammer2
PostScript:\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/pre-filtered-z53:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/lexmark/z53/z53.sh
:sh:
A trick is that you make lp the queue itself. A nuisance is that the
queue on the remote machine is named lp. This doesn't confuse lprng but
it can confuse humans.
Joel
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:57:51PM -0500, Barton Wold wrote:
> I am trying to set up a "virtual" printer for when print jobs are sent
> to, it takes that job and runs a script to add some custom headers and
> convert it to postscript, then forwards this job to be printed out on a
> different printer. My printcap entry looks like this:
>
> lineprinter:\
> :lp=frenv52%9100:\
>
> :filter=/export/Spool/lprng/libexec/filters/lineprinter/lineprinter.scr:\
> :sd=/export/Spool/lprng/spool/lpd/%P:\
> :af=/export/Spool/lprng/spool/lpd/%P/acct:\
> :lf=/export/Spool/lprng/spool/lpd/%P/log:\
>
> frenv52:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :ifhp=model=hp5000, dev=frenv52%9100,appsocket:\
> :filter=/export/Spool/lprng/libexec/filters/ifhp:\
> :sd=/export/Spool/lprng/spool/lpd/%P:\
>
> Where lineprinter is the "virtual" printer (that is, it doesn't
> physically exist) that takes a job, runs the lineprinter.scr script that
> creates a postscript document and sends it to the actual printer,
> frenv52.
>
> When I send this print job, it does create the postscript file but
> doesn't actually print. I run a 'snoop' from the print server to the
> actual printer (frenv52) and see network traffic going to it, so it
> looks like it works, except that nothing gets printed out.
>
> If anyone has suggestions, I would greatly appreaciate it. Thanks.
>
> Barton Wold
> United Defense L.P.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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