Re: print spooler to email

From: /dev/null (dhart_at_n.o.s.p.a.m.ultranet.com)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:11:11 GMT

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:

> /dev/null typed (on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:49:09AM +0000):
> | G'Day,
> |
> | I trying to set up a spooler interface to email print jobs (to a fixed
> | destination) rather than have them printed.
> |
> | I see from google groups that Jeff Lieberman has sent email to printers
> | - this is not what I want.
> |
> | I've tried a few hack attempts on the dumb spooler interface with no
> | success.
> |
> | Has anyone done this?
>
> I've got assorted printer interface scripts that pipe their ouput to
> visionfs, or to netcat, so it's no big deal to instead pipe to a
> mail|mutt command.
>
> Just enclose the last part of the cript, which actually loops over the
> input file, between squiggly braces, and pipe that to whatever you wish.
>

FWIW, this is how i did netcat last, changing the 'dumb' interface script:

#Use netcat for this network printer
FILTER="/u/netcat -h highspeed -p 9100"

and that works, so, it's what I tried first:

FILTER="/usr/bin/mail -s report boopy"

(boopy being a user on the system) which gives no errors and no mail.

So I tried this:

  cat ${file}| /usr/bin/mail -s report boopy
  #0<${file} eval ${FILTER} 2>&1

To test i typed in l|lp -d email (clever name, eh?)
and root gets this msg:

  Your request email-4505 destined for email
  encountered an error while printing on printer email.

  Reason for failure:

  /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces/email: /usr/bin/mail: text busy

Well, I can fix the error msg by changing it to this:

  cat ${file}| /usr/bin/mail -s report boopy 2>&1

but I still get no email.

Or did you mean:

{ while [ $i -le $copies ]
...
done } | mail -s report boopy

?

that also gave an error which is inscrutable to me...

Regards, Dirk

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