06-18-2008
Print Spooler product on UNIX?
HI all,
I was looking for Print Spooler products for Unix. Basically our requirement is to be able to send jobs to the spool "holded", change printing properties, view a list of jobs to be printed (based on some criteria), send a job to be printed (release) and view the contents of a specific job.
The product should have a CLI for working with the spool (i.e we do not need any GUI, it is to integrate the product with a current legacy system migrated from mainframe)
I have found XI-TEXT as one alternative. Any others out there?
Regards
Andrés B.
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ATD(8) System Manager's Manual ATD(8)
NAME
atd - run jobs queued for later execution
SYNOPSIS
atd [-l load_avg] [-b batch_interval] [-d] [-f] [-s]
DESCRIPTION
atd runs jobs queued by at(1).
OPTIONS
-l Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compile-time choice of 0.8. For an SMP
system with n CPUs, you will probably want to set this higher than n-1.
-b Specify the minimum interval in seconds between the start of two batch jobs (60 default).
-d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3). This option also implies -f.
-f Run atd in the foreground.
-s Process the at/batch queue only once. This is primarily of use for compatibility with old versions of at; atd -s is equivalent to
the old atrun command.
WARNING
atd won't work if its spool directory is mounted via NFS even if no_root_squash is set.
FILES
/var/spool/at The directory for storing jobs; this should be mode 700, owner root.
/var/spool/at/spool The directory for storing output; this should be mode 700, owner root.
/etc/at.allow, /etc/at.deny determine who can use the at system.
SEE ALSO
at(1), at.deny(5), at.allow(5), cron(8), crontab(1), syslog(3).
BUGS
The functionality of atd should be merged into cron(8).
2009-11-14 ATD(8)