topic Re: Can I stop the print request message? in Operating System - HP-UX

Can I stop the print request message?

Michelle Alexander — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:41:36 GMT

After a request is done to print a job on our 11i server, the user always gets the reply:
"request id is 0-104 (1 file)"

Is there a way to stop this?

Thanks,
Michelle

Re: Can I stop the print request message?

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:02:17 GMT

Create a wrapper for the lp command and make your wrapper lp command appear earlier in the PATH than /usr/bin/lp.

The idea is to redirect stdout to /dev/null

#!/usr/bin/sh

/usr/bin/lp "$@" > /dev/null
STAT=${?}
exit ${STAT}

Re: Can I stop the print request message?

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:06:02 GMT

I should also add that you can simply train your users to use the "-s" lp option or once again create an lp wrapper or an alias to do the same thing but if the lp command is invoked from within an application then the wrapper is the better choice. It gets more tricky if the application actually calls /usr/bin/lp rather than simply lp; in that case, you have to move the lp command and your wrapper becomes /usr/bin/lp.

Re: Can I stop the print request message?

Rodney Hills — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:01:54 GMT

Put an alias definition to add "-s" option:

alias lp="lp -s"

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: Can I stop the print request message?

Michael Tully — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:09:05 GMT

The man page of lp gives some good information where it gives an example of the output, and the -s suppress option.