Re: print spooler to email

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:09:04 GMT

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> /dev/null typed (on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:11:11PM +0000):
<snip>
>
> I just created a printer called mailme, using the dumb model, and using
> /dev/null. I made these changes:
>
> { #JPRadley
> while [ $i -le $copies ]
> do
> for file in $files
> do
> 0<${file} eval ${FILTER} 2>&1
> #JPRadley echo "\014\c"
> done
> i=`expr $i + 1`
> done
> } | mail -s PrintJobMailer jpr
>
> As expected, 'lp -dmailme file_name' put the contents of file_name in a
> message in my mailbox.
>

I had set the device to /dev/null after having used /usr/bin/mail as a
device, forgetting to stop & start the spooler, explaing my odd 'text
busy' msg.

Your method works perfectly as does my changing the FILTER eg,

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

Thanks for your help.

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