On Thursday 12 November 2020 10:25:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > 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 > As a much younger person once very patiently tried to explain to me: one must be "smart enough" to use a smartphone. :-\ Bill ____________________________________________________ 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
