jimmy@icjapan.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) (03/13/90)
I've wracked my brains on this one for many hours. Thus I turn to the net. We sometimes use our parallel printer to print checks. When we are doing this, we want to prevent normal print jobs from printing. My idea (stolen) is to create a second printer on /dev/lp called 'Checks'. Before we start printing checks, we would: disable Epson enable Checks But I can't figure out how to get this second printer configured. I have tried both as user 'root' and as user 'lp', but lpadmin just returns me my prompt without doing or saying anything. This is true even if I try deleting a non-existant printer or try to do something when the scheduler is running. A 'strings' of lpadmin shows error messages for these conditions. I am trying: lpadmin -pChecks -cParallel -v/dev/lp -eEpson -mdumb and other variations. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.