Thanks for the info. I will give that a try. In the mean time I
modified Get_user_information to do the check and truncate the name if
required. I figured there would be a better way though.
I just need to test how the RedHat tools will clobber my printcap...
John.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi John,
everything can be done/fixed with LPRng, your talking about the
swiss-army
knife beneath the lpd's ;-)
In your case you should look into the 'control_file_filter' part of
the
manual, in short words:
An entry like this:
printer:\
:control_filter=/usr/spool/lp/bin/control_file_filter.sh:\
:rm=windows_server:\
:rp=queue_on_windows_server:\
:
in your printcap will activate the filter. The filter will read the
controlfile entries from <STDIN> and write the 'new' controlfile to
<STDOUT>
For ex:
[printsrv2] ~lp/etc $ cat /usr/spool/lp/bin/control_file_filter.sh
#!/bin/sh
while read LINE
do
echo $LINE | /usr/bin/sed s/\^Ps\*/P/
done
Should do it. See
http://lprng.org/LPRng-Reference/LPRng-Reference.html#CFLINES
for the control file lines and purposes
See
http://lprng.org/LPRng-Reference/LPRng-Reference.html#OPENDEVICE
for a very short description of the filter mechanism
hope this helps :-)
~christoph
--
John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer
School of Information Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
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