Re: [netatalk-admins] Delivery from netatalk to 3rd-party spooler


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Delivery from netatalk to 3rd-party spooler
From: Les Barstow (lbarstow@entire.com)
Date: Tue May 25 1999 - 09:16:48 EDT


Phil Weingart wrote:
>
> Hi again.
>
> We have a third party spooling system, and lp turned off (no lpd, no
> lpadmin or lpsched.) How easy is it to configure netatalk to deliver using,
> say, a proprietary script. Or, does it simply deliver a file to a location?
> Is this as simple as devising a daemon to watch a directory, parse the
> control file, and submit whatever appears there?

It is as simple as editting the {installdir}/etc/papd.conf file.
It takes the file from STDIN. A sample entry from our RIP software:

Hold-gateway:\
        :pr=|/usr/local/bin/PrintWithName Hold:\
        :op=gateway:\
        :pd=/usr/local/atalk/etc/ppd/HPLJ5Si.ppd:

(PrintWithName is a little script I wrote to snag the title from the
PostScript
 and then forward to lp)

Les Barstow



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