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From: robs@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Rob Slotemaker CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Print Spooling to a printer off a diskless node?
Message-ID: <28510049@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Date: 27 May 91 08:11:27 GMT
References: <427@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU>
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
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To make spooling to a local printer work you should do:

  - add the printer to the lp spooler with device /dev/null;

  - modify your script in /usr/spool/lp/interface as follows:

      {
      (current contents of script)
      } | remsh <cnode name> /usr/spool/lp/interface/<cnode name>.aux

  - add a script named <cnode name>.aux in /usr/spool/lp/interface:

      #!/bin/sh
      # An auxiliary script to do remote spooling on diskless client
      # as found in HP-UX 7.0 Supplement to the Technical Exchange
      # Use Bourne shell to avoid any job control anomalies with background jobs

      sleep 999999 > /dev/printer&
      stty <options you want> < /dev/printer
      cat - > /dev/printer
      kill $!

    (sleep and stty to be setup as wanted)


This solution works fine for serial printers in our clustered environment. Note
that spooling using a printer connected to a diskless node still is
unsupported !


Best regards,

Rob Slotemaker, Dutch CRC