[comp.unix.questions] moving jobs between print queues?

mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (09/08/87)

We have printers in 2 different buildinga and a separate print queue
for each (4bsd).  When one of the printers goes down, is there a 
clean, convenient way to move all the jobs in its queue to the other
printer's queue?

The obvious way is to use a shell script that
	1) disables spooling and stops printing on both queues
	2) mv's all the [cd]fA* files and the .seq file from the
	   downed printer's spool dir to the other spool dir
	3) enables spooling and printing on the up printer
This might screw up printer accounting, but our Imagen software doesn't
do accounting for ethernetted printers anyway.

Any better solutions?

Thanks,
Mike Khaw
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