Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:43:18 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: customizing printcap to email file Message-ID: <p05200f0dbab264db881b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030403153320.A43931@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030403153320.A43931@skytrackercanada.com>
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At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote:
>what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix
>printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format
>and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed
>out.
>
>Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap
>if= entry to take the file and save it as a file. That was a
>no go - I just got an error.
This is should be workable, although there are probably a number
of subtle details that you'll need to pay attention to. You
will probably want to set a log file (lf=) for the printer, as
some useful error messages might show up there. Other errors
show up in /var/log/messages or /var/log/lpd-errs. What error
did you get?
Note that you'd want to set if= to an executable script, and
that the script should just *read* from stdin and write to
where you want it written. Eg:
#!/bin/sh
cat > /tmp/somefile
First try to get it to work by writing to a /tmp file. If you
get that working, you can then move on to getting it to work
more like what you really want.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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