wittke@Outlaw.UWyo.Edu ( Anne B Wittke) (06/28/90)
Regarding downloading a file to a printer at boot time; thanks for all the suggestions! Here's a summary: 1) Using a shell script in rc.local which sleeps before sending the file (didn't work) 2) Editing /etc/inittab (that file doesn't exist on our computers) 3) Never turning off the printer (are you kidding? The local electric company isn't called Pathetic Power for nothing...) 4) Using full pathnames (sure, can't hurt) 5) Sending file after lpd started, which meant putting the lpr command in rc instead of rc.local What I did was put the lines: /usr/ucb/lpr -Pwy_laser /usr/users/local/csdict.ps lpc topq wy_laser root at the end of /etc/rc, and this did the trick. Topq was used because there could be jobs already sitting in the queue waiting to be printed. -Anne