Hi SUN Managers,
my original question was:
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itions from SunOS to Solaris 2.x
Hi SUN Managers,
does anyone have a script for moving printer(-queue) definitions from
SunOS's BSD printing to Solaris SYSV printing, at least for
all remote printers?
We have a large amount of printer-definitions in /etc/printcap and therefore
we have something like a Source-Printcap, distributed every day.
So we are interested in automatically generating these printer(queue)s
also on Solaris 2.x.
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Many thanks to Dan Stromberg and to Jim McLean-Lipinski who have made some
suggestions.
First, Sun seems to be rewriting their current printsystem, but unlikely
not until sometime after 2.4.
However there are at least two possible solutions:
1.) Port the BSD stuff to Solaris
2.) Write a script which extracts the printer information
(/etc/printcap or some other description files)
and which will perform the necessary command sequence
- lpfilter
- lpsystem -t bsd ..
lpsystem -t s5 ...
- some port monitor administration stuff
- for each printer
reject ...
disable ...
lpadmin -c .. -x ..
some more lpadmins
accept ..
enable ..
- restart lp subsystem
I will have a closer look to solution 2.)
Many thanks,
Volker
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Volker Sander
Central Institute for Applied Mathematics
Research Center Juelich
52425 Juelich
Germany
E-mail: V.Sander@kfa-juelich.de
Phone: (+49) 2461 / 61- 6586
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