I was thinking of that but was a 'delayed' solution - trees dying while the daemon sleeps to wake up and kill the print job
Barry Rogen PNY Technologies, Inc. Senior Programmer/Analyst (973) 515 - 9700 ext 5327 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. t. roosevelt ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jjuser ud2 Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:01 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] SPOOLER Perhaps the code could just monitor the print files and change ownership as they are generated from usd? On 1/25/07, Anthony Dzikiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might have to write some code to help manage this. I remember > changing the permissions of the unix 'cancel' command so that anyone in > a group could execute it. What I also do for these kinds of things is > to have our batch processing program do the work. So, lets say you > would have some kind of a 'gui' front end to build the command that you > want to execute and then just hand if off to the daemon. The daemon > would be running as root. > Anthony > > > > > > We are in the processing of setting up a new system that > > we will be migrating to. > > It will be running 10.2 on HPUX 11.23. > > > > We are planning to stop using our network print server and > > spool through Unix > > directly to the IP address. Here is the challenge. > > > > Joe produces a quite sizable job to the printer. So, the > > UniVerse spooler processes > > the job and hands it off to the Unix spooler. At this > > point, the job is no longer visible > > to the UniVerse spooler. Since 'usd' is running with > > superuser level, the Unix print > > file gets created with the same security level. > > > > Joe decides to cancel the print job. He can not execute > > SPOOL -CANCEL because > > UniVerse is no longer cognizant of the file. He cant > > 'cancel' the job, because he does > > not have security level. > > > > Question: How to create a print job from UniVerse, so > > that the Unix print file will have > > an ownership/security that will allow Joe > > to cancel his own print job. > > > > Note: If you press the <cancel> button on printer, Unix > > seems to say 'oh, something > > happened to the printing, let me start over and > > print it again' > > > > > > Thoughts, ideas, comments, criticisms............. > > > > Barry Rogen > > PNY Technologies, Inc. > > Senior Programmer/Analyst > > (973) 515 - 9700 ext 5327 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win > > glorious triumphs even though checkered by > > failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who > > neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live > > in the gray twilight that knows neither victory > > nor defeat. t. roosevelt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type > > application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
