topic Ho do I define LPDEST for printer? in Operating System - HP-UX

Ho do I define LPDEST for printer?

Yaroki — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:43:22 GMT

Hi all,

I would like to know how I can determine the LPDEST so when I type

# echo $LPDEST

It will bring up the requested result that I set before.

(On HP-UX B.11.11)

Thanks,

Yali

Re: Ho do I define LPDEST for printer?

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:51:42 GMT

You have to manually set LPDEST in your personal .profile if you want it set every time you log in.

For example, add the following to your .profile if you want printer BR549 set as your LPDEST:

export LPDEST=BR549

Re: Ho do I define LPDEST for printer?

Yaroki — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:07:51 GMT

I did it but it does not make any change. Still the old destination is set, evev after I opened new terminal.

BTW

I am sorry but it is HP-UX B.10.20

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Dennis Handly — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:14:29 GMT

>I did it but it does not make any change. Still the old destination is set, even after I opened new terminal.

What's your shell? Did you login when you opened a new terminal? And what type of terminal?

Did you put that export at the end of your .profile?

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Yaroki — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:53:36 GMT

My shell is tcsh. I know that the export command dosen't work on this shell, but I set the LPDEST at the .profile file. It supose to work?

I opened a new terminal when with and without loggin.

I put the export at the end of my .profile.

Thanks

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Dennis Handly — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:10:02 GMT

>My shell is tcsh. I know that the export command doesn't work on this shell

(If you are not using a real shell, you need to mention that.)

>I set the LPDEST at the .profile file. It suppose to work?

Only if you use a real shell.

For tcsh and scummy C shell you need to use: setenv LPDEST printer

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Yaroki — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:34:02 GMT

Sorry, but I didn't know that tcsh consider as not real shell.

Any way, I worte setenv LPDEST printer on .profile but still has no effect.

I edited the .profile file for the specific user I ment. Should I edit the .profile for root?

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Dennis Handly — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:06:28 GMT

>I didn't know that tcsh consider as not real shell.

Only ksh and the Posix shells are.

>I wrote setenv LPDEST printer on .profile but still has no effect.

Of course not. Only real shells use .profile. The scummy C shell uses ~/.cshrc and ~/.login

>Should I edit the .profile for root?

No. Root should only use the Posix shell. And in that case, use export.

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Yaroki — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:43:48 GMT

Thanks for the answer,

I have to say that this shell (tcsh) used by the users and is suitable to the work.

Yali

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

Dennis Handly — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:23:09 GMT

>this shell (tcsh) used by the users and is suitable to the work.

Of course if that's what they are used to using. ;-)

But it isn't useful for scripting, compared to a real shell.

And it appears they don't know how to export variables?

Re: How do I define LPDEST for printer?

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:37:43 GMT

Of course "tcsh" is a real shell, and it is actively maintained! (e.g. 6.18.00 will be out soon, and I'll upload the builds)

I use tcsh since System3, where the only alternatives were sh (the bourne shell) and csh (the original csh). The choice was easy.

I however completely agree with (t)csh not being fit for either scripting nor for a root shell, but I also would say that the bourne shell is also too limited for that work.

Since then a lot has changed, and ksh came along with POSIX shells. I stuck to tcsh but I consider bash to be equally usable.

For a day-to-day job, tcsh should really be considered a REAL shell!

FWIW I use tcsh on HP-UX ranging fro 10.20 through 11.31 and it is avalable on my site