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From: kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Remote printer
Date: 17 Jan 1996 21:27:20 GMT
Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <4djpjo$an9@lace.colorado.edu>
References: <4dinnc$n9k@upsn6.u-psud.fr>
NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov
In article <4dinnc$n9k@upsn6.u-psud.fr>,
Daniel Betaille <betaille@lure.u-psud.fr> wrote:
>It seems that the filter is not used by printcap.
>Has anybody an idea , is this a problem of remote printer?
The filter program `hpif' is run on the host to which the printer is
attached. For example:
Host A Host B----Printer
| |
----+-----------+--
If you print on Host A, the job is sent to Host B, and hpif will be
run there on Host B. If you specify :if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif: in
Host A's /etc/printcap, nothing will happen. You need to specify it
in Host B's /etc/printcap.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much
glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted.
-- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey