alan@bach.net.com (Alan Phillips) (03/13/91)
Our application has an interactive configuration procedure which asks the user a number of site dependent questions. Included in these questions are ones about the type of printer that the user will be using (selected from a list of supported ones) and the port to which that printer will be connected. I want to be able to take that information and fire off the necessary commands to create the printer device, the virtual printer, and whatever needs to be done so that when the user then does an "lpr -P THAT_PRINTER filename" the print job pops out on the printer. The key point here is that I don't want the user to have to go through SMIT to configure the printer, I want that to do the configuration for him/her. I have been successful in creating the printer device with "mkdev". I can also create a virtual printer with "mkvirprt". Then, "lpr" seems to work fine. However, I can only get "mkvirprt" to work when I use it's interactive mode. I haven't found a combination of "mkvirprt" options that will work to do what I want to do non-interactively. Are there some things that I need to put in "/etc/qconfig"? There has to be something that I am missing in the documentation that would tell me how to do this, but I haven't found it. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Alan Alan Phillips Phone: (415) 780-4477 Network Equipment Tech., Redwood City, CA internet: alan@bach.net.com UUCP: ...ames!unet!bach!alan