Hi there
I'm working with HP/UX
I have found a line printer log file in /var/adm/lp.
this file contains the print process, the User, the Printer, and date/time.
My question is , where can i make a change so that this file includes the name of the file that is sent to the printer?
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RH 7.2
I am able to configure a parallel printer using printconf-gui...but is there any way to automate this through the command line?
Through printconf-gui I configure it as a local printer, I gave it an arbitrary queue name of epson-fx-880, device is /dev/lp0, & it's a text-only printer.
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All,
I have just entered over 70 printers in my AIX 5.3 machine. I have to get those same printers onto another machine and I really don't want to do it manually again.
Is there a way to copy the information over to that machine?
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We have several Printers that are pointing to a print server that is now defunct. I need to point these printers to the new print server.
I am aware I need to change the configuration in /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/printers/printername/configuration as well as in /etc/printers.conf.
However my... (0 Replies)
Does anybody who uses open SUSE 11.0?
I have used open SUSE 10.2 for about 18 months.
Today I installed open SUSE 11.0
The printer does not work. I tried all the tricks tweak it.
My printer is an old one. It is HP Deskjet 5600 series.
It works fine.
I did the configuration using... (0 Replies)
Dear Sir,
How can install additional pci lpt card (parallel port)
I want to install second dmp printer in unixware 7 server
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Hello,
I am working on Servers running SCO OpenServer 5 and I tend to setup a lot of Servers. I am wondering if mkdev -lp to create printers has a file that I can just copy and paste from an exisiting Server to a new (upgrade) server. I can do this with the hosts and resolv.conf files.
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Dear All,
I have configured a printer on a unix box to be printing on windows xp printer. Below are the steps followed:-
Create the printer on the Windows XP box and share it as prt5
Enable unix printer services on windows XP box
On unix box i make changes on hosts,hosts.equiv and .rhosts... (1 Reply)
We are moving production from a 6.1 AIX server to a cluster 7.1 servers.
I am asked to set up the printers exactly the way it was on 6.1.server.
How do i copy the printer configurations?
Will copying /etc/qconfig file work?
Please help me.
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lpc
lpc(8) System Manager's Manual lpc(8)Name
lpc - line printer control program
Syntax
/etc/lpc [ command [ argument... ] ]
Description
The program is used by the system administrator to control the operation of the line printer system. For each line printer with an entry
in the file, may be used to start/stop several different functions.
Without any arguments, prompts for commands from the standard input. If arguments are supplied, interprets the first argument as a command
and the remaining arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input may be redirected causing to read commands from file. The
commands and their parameters are shown below. Commands may be abbreviated.
? [ command... ]
help [ command... ]
Prints a short description of each command specified in the argument list, or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized
commands.
abort [ all ] [ printer... ]
Terminates an active spooling daemon on the local host immediately and then disables printing (preventing new daemons from being
started by for the specified printers.
clean [ all ] [ printer... ]
Removes all files beginning with ``cf'', ``tf'', or ``df'' from the specified printer queue(s) on the local machine.
enable [ all ] [ printer... ]
Enables spooling on the local queue for the listed printers. This will allow to put new jobs in the spool queue.
exit
quit
Exits from
disablefR [ all ] [ printer... ]
Turns off the specified printer queues. This prevents new printer jobs from being entered into the queue by
restart [ all ] [ printer... ]
Attempts to start a new printer daemon. This is useful when some abnormal condition causes the daemon to die unexpectedly leaving
jobs in the queue. The command will report that there is no daemon present when this condition occurs.
start [ all ] [ printer... ]
Enables printing and starts a spooling daemon for the listed printers. This command also creates an file in the printer's spool
directory. The file can be used by filters as an initialization flag.
status [ all ] [ printer... ]
Displays the status of daemons and queues on the local machine.
stop [ all ] [ printer... ]
Stops a spooling daemon after the current job completes and disables printing.
topq printer [ jobnum... ] [ user... ]
Places the jobs in the order listed at the top of the printer queue.
Diagnostics
?Ambiguous command
Abbreviation matches more than on command.
?Invalid command
No match was found.
?Privileged command
The command can only be executed by root.
Files
Printer description file
Spool directories
Lock file for queue control
See Alsolpq(1), lpr(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd(8)lpc(8)