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Can anyone suggest a way to have a notification after a print job has completed. I currently have this as my print command: lpr -r -P%p %s; csh -c 'echo \"%J has started printing on %S\" | /usr/bin/smbclient -U %L -M %m -I %I' & It kind of does what I want, but notice that the message says that "Job has STARTED printing on Printer". This is because with this

...lowing into that file: Hjhammer6.jhammer.org Proot Jjunk CA Lroot Njunk ldfA127jhammer6.jhammer.org UdfA127jhammer6.jhammer.org You could then run a script after the printing is done to remove all the files with the control number A127. Or, you could put in, at the end: echo File Printed | mail -s PrintingDone user Of course, you have to get the user name from the $CONTROL information in that mycontrol file. This can get complicated. There is good documentation for LPRng in: /usr/share/doc/LPRng-Howto or some such. This seems like a lot, but printing will be a continuing problem if you use linux, espec...