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From: JON%UCLASTRO.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Redirecting printer messages with lpd
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Date: 13 Jan 88 20:56:14 GMT
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To all,

        We have a apple Laserwriter as the default printer on our local
Sun network.  Error messages that get returned from the printer are
placed in the error log file specified by lf= in /etc/printcap.  However,
I would rather these messages either be sent directly to the user's
terminal, or if not logged on, mailed to the user who initiated the
job.  My conception of how this would work would be to tell the lpd
deamon to send the messages to a filter instead of the file.  However,
from the man pages for lpd, there does not seem to be a way of doing
this.  Am I mistaken (as usual)?  If not mistaken, how would I go
about doing this?  Presumably, lpd would need to be modified.  How
can I get source for lpd?  Or is there a public domain version of lpd?
System info: the print server is a Sun running SunOS 3.2 (4.2 unix).

                                        Thanks,
                                        Jonathan Eisenhamer
                                        UCLA Astronomy
                                        jon@uclastro.bitnet
                                        bonnie::jon (SPAN 5828)
                                        (213) 206-8596