Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:32:42 +1000 From: David L <dlodeiro@inspired.net.au> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Yep!... Still a Newbie Message-ID: <200310041632.42725.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au>
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I set up a pc at home as a file server and printer server ( to print from both
FreeBSD/ Linux clients as well as windows clients ), and thanks to a lot of
posts, and a lot of google, I got it working very reliably. So I thought Ide
replicate this on the FreeBSD server I set up at work, should'nt be to hard
Ill just copy my configuration from my server. So I logged in to my home
server from work ( using putty on windows ) and coppied the smb.conf printing
configurations over. Unfortunately I cant copy and paste between putty and
anything else like I can with terminals on KDE at home, so I had to retype it
in, and I did so blindly, paying little attention to what I was typing. And
it didnt work , and I couldnt figure out what it was for roughly 2 months of
the occasional attempts.
My home :
print command = echo %J %p %s >> /tmp/junkJ;\
a="`echo '%J' | sed "s/^.*- //"`" ;\
echo This is truncated $a >> /tmp/junkJ;\
/usr/bin/lpr -Plp -J"$a" %s;\
rm %s
lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Plp
lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Plp %j
lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold -Plp %j
lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release -Plp %j
Work :
print command = echo %J %p %s >> /tmp/junkJ;\
a="'echo '%J' | sed "s/^.*- //"'" ;\
echo This is truncated $a >> /tmp/junkJ;\
/usr/bin/lpr -Plp -J"$a" %s;\
rm %s
lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Plp
lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Plp %j
lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold -Plp %j
lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release -Plp %j
Eventually last night at about 1 in the morning, I actually took the time to
read this, and I had a look at tmp and noticed that every time I sent a job
to print from a win client, the file junkJ increased in size. I deleted it.
And it came back when I sent another job to print, and got bigger with every
editional job. And then I figured out what I did wrong.
Why must 2 charachters be so similar?
David L
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