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2002 Jun 22
10
Print Job Notification
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
2003 Dec 01
0
No subject
...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, especi...