kevin@litle.litle.com (kevin p burke) (09/11/90)
does anyone have lpr/lpd ported to Interactive?
I've got to use network printers in a mixed (bsd/sysV) network.
thanx
-k
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kevin@litle.com {backbone}!dartvax.dartmouth.edu!litle!kevindlr@daver.bungi.com (Dave Rand) (09/11/90)
In article <510@litle.litle.com> kevin@litle.litle.com (kevin p burke) writes: >does anyone have lpr/lpd ported to Interactive? >I've got to use network printers in a mixed (bsd/sysV) network. Yes. Mail me if you would like a copy. Here is the readme: Mon May 21 12:49:15 PDT 1990 While 386/ix (tm Interactive) has a number of network services from BSD, lpr is not one of them. This does not cause a real problem, as the shell scripts of lp can be used to perform remote printing. It is not a very good solution when interacting with other Sun or BSD systems. Jonathan C. Broome <wilbur!jon> did the original port to 386/ix from the freed lpr sources. I added a few modifications, and re-did the context diffs from the tar file on uunet (~ftp/bsd-sources/src/network/lpr.tar.Z) No guarantee that this will work for you, but it works for me. To use: Unpack the shell archive, then apply the two patch files lpr.diff.1 and lpr.diff.2 with patch. The unaltered source files from the lpr tar file must be used. The C files included must be in the lpr directory. -- Dave Rand {pyramid|mips|bct|vsi1}!daver!dlr Internet: dlr@daver.bungi.com
wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) (09/11/90)
In article <510@litle.litle.com> kevin@litle.litle.com (kevin p burke) writes: >does anyone have lpr/lpd ported to Interactive? >I've got to use network printers in a mixed (bsd/sysV) network. I don't have lpr/lpd ported (I'd want it, if someone does have it, even diffs to some specified BSD distribution would do!), but I have a way to make printers on the BSD side of the network available to 386/IX machines. It requires that user ids are equivalent across the network, but could probably be modified to use an id like "nobody". Here's how to do it: 1. For each network printer, create a device with the same specs as /dev/null, but with the name /dev/printername. I.e., our laser printers are named h0, h1, etc., and I have devices created like this: mknod /dev/h0 c 2 2 mknod /dev/h1 c 2 2 ... 2. Then go into the sysadm menu, select package mgmt, lp mgmt, add printer. Specify "dumb" as the type, regardless of what type of printer it is, we'll let BSD lpr handle the filtering etc. Specify the appropriate /dev/null equivalent as the device. This will work, even though /dev/null, or the printer-specific equivs are not listed. Give your printer an appropriate name (instead of dumb1, dumb2, etc.). 3. Finally, cd into /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces, and modify each of the scripts there to do something like: #ident "@(#)tcpremote 2.4 - 88/07/21" # lp interface for remote printer on a BSD-like system # PRINTHOST=cossun # modify to suit local setup THISHOST=`/usr/ucb/hostname` LPRDEST=`basename $0` REQUEST=$1 OWNER=$2 TITLE="$3" if [ ! -z "$TITLE" ] ; then TITLE="-T$TITLE" ; fi COPIES=$4 OPTIONS=$5 shift; shift; shift; shift; shift FILES="$*" export LPRDEST REQUEST OWNER TITLE COPIES OPTIONS FILES (count=1 while [ $count -le $COPIES ] do for file in $FILES do cat "$file" 2>&1 done count=`expr $count + 1` done exit 0 ) | /usr/ucb/rsh $PRINTHOST lpr -P$LPRDEST -C$THISHOST -J$REQUEST And off you go. -- Wolf N. Paul, IIASA, A - 2361 Laxenburg, Austria, Europe PHONE: +43-2236-71521-465 FAX: +43-2236-71313 UUCP: uunet!iiasa.at!wnp INTERNET: wnp%iiasa.at@uunet.uu.net BITNET: tuvie!iiasa!wnp@awiuni01.BITNET * * * * Kurt Waldheim for President (of Mars, of course!) * * * *
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (09/11/90)
In article <510@litle.litle.com> kevin@litle.litle.com (kevin p burke) writes: >does anyone have lpr/lpd ported to Interactive? >I've got to use network printers in a mixed (bsd/sysV) network. Jonathan C Broome put together (and then Dave Rand made several additions to) patches to the freed BSD lpr code which enable it to run under 386/ix. If you want them, email me & I will send them to you. If there is enough intereste I will post them. You should note that I have not tried or tested these patches, so your mileage may vary. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170