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#1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 10:47 PM

On AIX is it possible to specify the name of the server that hosts the printer?

Or MUST one set up a remote printer on AIX and use that?

Anyway to avoid the file being copied in these cirumstances?

JL

#2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 10:47 PM

In article <4412dd31.0406150607.7c1fc6e5@posting.google.com >,
John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote:
>On AIX is it possible to specify the name of the server that hosts
>the printer? Or MUST one set up a remote printer on AIX and use that?

Setup via /etc/qconfig.

>Anyway to avoid the file being copied in these cirumstances?

Maybe you want the "-s" flag to the "lpr" command?

--
Ken Bell :: kenbell@panix.com :: (212) 475-4976 (voice)

#3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 10:49 PM

man page says

"Note that this flag only
works on the local host (files sent to remote printer hosts are copied anyway),
and only with named data files".

kenbell@panix.com (Ken Bell) wrote in message news:<cao8k5$jvh$1@reader2.panix.com>...
> In article <4412dd31.0406150607.7c1fc6e5@posting.google.com >,
> John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote:
> >On AIX is it possible to specify the name of the server that hosts
> >the printer? Or MUST one set up a remote printer on AIX and use that?
>
> Setup via /etc/qconfig.
>
> >Anyway to avoid the file being copied in these cirumstances?
>
> Maybe you want the "-s" flag to the "lpr" command?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:36 AM

In article <4412dd31.0406210242.777db80d@posting.google.com >,
John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote:
>man page says
>
>"Note that this flag only
>works on the local host (files sent to remote printer hosts are copied anyway),
>and only with named data files".

Yes, the man page is a bit confusing. The "-s" flag suppresses
the local copy in any case, but of course, to transmit the file to
the remote server, a "network copy" is still required. Without
the "-s" flag, the file is first copied into /var/spool/qdaemon,
and then copied over the network to the server.

The point about "named data files" is well taken, though I suppose
expected, given that only a named data file will have a directory
entry and the lpr man page cautions against "removing" the file
before printing has completed when the "-s" flag is used.

>kenbell@panix.com (Ken Bell) wrote in message
>news:<cao8k5$jvh$1@reader2.panix.com>...
>> In article <4412dd31.0406150607.7c1fc6e5@posting.google.com >,
>> John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote:
>> >On AIX is it possible to specify the name of the server that hosts
>> >the printer? Or MUST one set up a remote printer on AIX and use that?
>>
>> Setup via /etc/qconfig.
>>
>> >Anyway to avoid the file being copied in these cirumstances?
>>
>> Maybe you want the "-s" flag to the "lpr" command?

--
Ken Bell :: kenbell@panix.com :: (212) 475-4976 (voice)

#5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:40 AM

lpr -s -P queuename filename

seems to work except on large files. If I try and lpr a file of say
300 MB then the queue goes down. Smaller files are fine. This suggests
to me that a local copy is still being taken?

Any ideas?

kenbell@panix.com (Ken Bell) wrote in message news:<cb7inc$mpc$1@reader2.panix.com>...
> In article <4412dd31.0406210242.777db80d@posting.google.com >,
> John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote:
> >man page says
> >
> >"Note that this flag only
> >works on the local host (files sent to remote printer hosts are copied anyway),
> >and only with named data files".
>
> Yes, the man page is a bit confusing. The "-s" flag suppresses
> the local copy in any case, but of course, to transmit the file to
> the remote server, a "network copy" is still required. Without
> the "-s" flag, the file is first copied into /var/spool/qdaemon,
> and then copied over the network to the server.
>
> The point about "named data files" is well taken, though I suppose
> expected, given that only a named data file will have a directory
> entry and the lpr man page cautions against "removing" the file
> before printing has completed when the "-s" flag is used.
>
>
> >kenbell@panix.com (Ken Bell) wrote in message
> >news:<cao8k5$jvh$1@reader2.panix.com>...
> >> In article <4412dd31.0406150607.7c1fc6e5@posting.google.com >,
> >> John Leslie <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote:
> >> >On AIX is it possible to specify the name of the server that hosts
> >> >the printer? Or MUST one set up a remote printer on AIX and use that?
> >>
> >> Setup via /etc/qconfig.
> >>
> >> >Anyway to avoid the file being copied in these cirumstances?
> >>
> >> Maybe you want the "-s" flag to the "lpr" command?

#6 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:40 AM

"John Leslie" <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote in message
news:4412dd31.0406280432.7f425d68@posting.google.c om...
> lpr -s -P queuename filename
>
> seems to work except on large files. If I try and lpr a file of say
> 300 MB then the queue goes down. Smaller files are fine. This suggests
> to me that a local copy is still being taken?
>

The lpr command by default spools a copy of the job in /var/spool/qdaemon
and prints that copy. You are correct that the -s on lpr is supposed to
suppress the local copy. What happens if you use "enq -Pqname /some/file"
instead?

#7 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:40 AM

same thing

error message displayed is

0781-088 Queue testnt2:@nt went down, job is still queued:
Backend: /usr/lib/lpd/rembak -T60 -S nt -P HP_4100 -N /usr/lib/lpd/bsdshort \
/home/sefas/testfile
Backend Exit Value: EXITBAD (0376)

"LAIX Software Consulting" <laixsoft@flash.net> wrote in message news:<WwUDc.1337$Ol4.103@newssvr15.news.prodigy.co m>...
> "John Leslie" <johnleslie@madasafish.com> wrote in message
> news:4412dd31.0406280432.7f425d68@posting.google.c om...
> > lpr -s -P queuename filename
> >
> > seems to work except on large files. If I try and lpr a file of say
> > 300 MB then the queue goes down. Smaller files are fine. This suggests
> > to me that a local copy is still being taken?
> >
>
> The lpr command by default spools a copy of the job in /var/spool/qdaemon
> and prints that copy. You are correct that the -s on lpr is supposed to
> suppress the local copy. What happens if you use "enq -Pqname /some/file"
> instead?

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