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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting System V printing filter Post 303025438 by Ken_Snauffer on Friday 2nd of November 2018 11:25:15 AM

11-02-2018

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jgt:

1. Do you have netcat or if binary is available? .... "netcat: Command not found." and no I do not know if any binary's are available.
2. Could stop print service and manually edit? .... I kind of was looking for an automated process to determine what would print and what would get "dumped"
3. Unix release and binary compatible? .... Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650) and I believe it is binary compatible (it has samba) but that may not be 100% accurate

gull04:

1. There is no GUI anywhere that I can find. It does not even seem to have xwindows. I am basically 100% CLI.
2. Yes, lpadmin is available to me.
3. Setup class for the printer....??? sorry, way over my head... please explain in more detail if you want me to follow
4. Modify filter file... Yeah, that was kind of what I was hoping to do. Copy and modify current filter file with something that would block print jobs that did not start with Manual.
5. Absolutely no worries about being a little rusty.... I have no experience at all and this is soooo ancient I had many problems finding any information at all on it. Any help you can offer or light you can shed is more than greatly appreciated.

FYI: This machine is currently being used in a production environment so any changes made need to be small and minor with little impact to the system.

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gnome-printinfo

gnome-printinfo(1)						   User Commands						gnome-printinfo(1)

NAME

       gnome-printinfo - GNOME print manager

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-printinfo [--default] [--edit] [--printer=printer] [--open=printer] [--edit-path=default-source-file] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  GNOME  Print Manager application enables you to control and manage printers and print jobs. You can use GNOME Print Manager to perform
       the following tasks:

	 o  Detect existing printers

	 o  Choose which printer to use for different documents

	 o  View a list of the print jobs that are queued on each printer

	 o  Cancel print jobs that are queued

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d, --default		       Shows the printer queue for the default printer only.

       -e, --edit		       Allows the superuser to edit the default label, icon and     description of printers, for the current  LANG
				       setting.

       --edit-path=default-source-file Allows the superuser to edit the printer default settings for the GConf source specified.

       -o, --open=printer	       Opens the printer queue window for the specified printer.

       -p, --printer=printer	       Shows the printer queue window for the specified printeronly.

       gnome-std-options	       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching GNOME Print Manager to show the default printer only:

       example% gnome-printinfo -d

       Example 2: Launching GNOME Print Manager to show printer "prn004001":

       example% gnome-printinfo -p prn004001

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

       REQ_DIR		       Used to store print requests. If not set, defaults to /var/spool/lp/requests/%s/

       TMP_DIR		       Used to store local print jobs. If not set, defaults to /var/spool/lp/tmp

       LANG		       Current language setting.

       DEF_PRN		       Current default printer.

       PRINTER		       Current printer.

       LPDEST		       Destination printer for lp.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-printinfo        Executable for GNOME print manager

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-print		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       GNOME Print Manager Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       lp(1),  lp(7D),	cancel(1), enable(1), lpq(1B), lpr(1B), lprm(1B), lpstat(1), postprint(1), pr(1), stty(1), accept(1M), lpadmin(1M), lpfil-
       ter(1M), lpforms(1M), lpmove(1M), lpsched(1M), lpshut(1M), lpsystem(1M), lpusers(1M), printers(4), printers.conf(4),  attributes(5),  envi-
       ron(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    2 Oct 2003							gnome-printinfo(1)