On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Sam Warren wrote:
> You suggest to use "lpc move". However, LPRng was not working. Jobs had
> stacked up in the queues but I couldn't use LPRng to process any of them
> in any manor, not even lpc move. So, I had the files in the queues and
> needed to move them to another server so they would print. How can you
> achieve that?
>
> Sam
You can brute force it if you don't mind losing
track of pretty much everything BUT you do get paper
with marks on it out the other end.
Something along the lines of this is wince-inducing
but does work in the case of lprng on "dead" being
down, "remote" having a similar printing setup and
networking still up. Exact directory locations will vary.
The idea is the output is sitting there in df* files
so all you have to do is print them on a queue attached
to a sufficiently similar printer.
If you are in even worse shape, "nc" (netcat) can often get
the file into the printer but that is even uglier.
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dead% /etc/init.d/lprng stop
remote% mkdir /tmp/pbuffer
Then, for each queue: alice, bozo, cary, david, etc:
dead% scp /var/spool/lpd/alice/df* remote:/tmp/pbuffer
remote% lpr -Palice /tmp/pbuffer/df*
Verify printing happened
remote% rm -rf /tmp/pbuffer/df*
dead% rm /var/spool/lpd/alice/df* /var/spool/lpd/alice/cf*
Go to next printer until done.
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David Fetrow
Distributed Computing Services
Applied Physics Lab, Univ. of Washington
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