Anno domini 2020 Thu, 12 Nov 11:38:47 -0600 Michael via tde-users scripsit: > On Thursday 12 November 2020 11:05:40 am BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > > > That's half of it Kate, the cups installed on the clients needs to > > > > have "browser" enabled. Once that's done you can keep the chainsaws > > > > busy. Until you run out of ink or toner. > > > > > > Oh my ... that's the reason why I set up a "drop stuff here" folder on > > > the > > only computer that's connected to a printer. Whenever I drop a file into > > it, it gets printed and deleted. > > > > Oh that's interesting. Never used that. > > Hi Nik, > > Do you use incron (incrontab) for this? You willing to share your script > (assuming it's in bash)? > Oh, that's just some lines in /etc/rc.local: ( mkdir /tmp/xxx inotifywait -m /tmp/xxx -e CLOSE_WRITE | while read a; do b=$(echo "$a" | cut -d ' ' -f 3-) lpr "$b" && rm "$b" done ) & now copy anything you want to print to /tmp/xxx ... hopefully you have set up filters for all the strange files that are not ps, pdf ot txt ... and you could do some better sanity checking :) Oh, you need inotify-tools, too. > Curiosity, best time waster ever invented! That's why smartphones were invented. with smatphones nobody will ever feel curiosity again! Nik > > Best, > Michael > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
