From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 12 05:01:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA10887 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 05:01:27 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA10881 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 05:01:25 -0700 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za ([146.64.24.58]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id EAA04376 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 04:58:27 -0700 Received: (from bertus@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA26689 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 13:58:12 +0200 From: Bertus Pretorius Message-Id: <199504121158.NAA26689@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: syslog to printer To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 13:58:11 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 931 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, i'm looking for something or someway whereby the syslog could be directed to a printer rather than to a file. Obvious ways is to add the /dev/lp... to the syslog.conf which I tested. It however fails to take care of printer down problems. The other way is to craete a named pipe and clean it to the printer with some or other deamon that will be able to buffer and then flush the pipe when the printer is down (it should alos be able to give notice of the printer down condition). I'm looking for this deamon beast. I'm going to build one if non exists and would appreciate any ideas. Thanks -- +-Bertus Pretorius------------ (O) (O) ---------------bertus@mikom.csir.co.za-+ | mikomtek ^ +27 12 841-3001 (Voice) | | CSIR \___/ +27 12 841-4065 (FAX) | +-----------------A smile is the same in all languages------------------------+