Afternoon All. Our users use telnet to connect to a server where they run our main ERP application. (This is Progress RDMS running on RedHat 6.2).
I am thinking about a perl script that will direct printed output to the printer closest to the users terminal rather than relying on them to select the correct printer. (It's funny how often printed output doesn't even come out in the right state, let alone the right room.) Because users login in different places I can't tie the printer to the user name. I am guessing I will need to create a table with printer preferences based on ip address of the terminal. (We use fixed ip addresses). My thoughts so far are to get the process id of the perl script and then using a combination of ps and w get the ip address of the terminal the user is on. Can anyone suggest a simpler and/or more direct way of achieving this. Thank you Steven -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
