topic Printing to /dev/null in Operating System - HP-UX

Printing to /dev/null

Anthony Goonetilleke_1 — Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:23:20 GMT

I was wondering what the easiest way is to setup a phantom printer to print to
/dev/null. We want a certain application to print to an existing printer but
we don't care about the output and want it to disappear into the ether..

Thanks in adv,
AG

Re: Printing to /dev/null

Rick Taylor_5 — Wed, 08 Dec 1999 11:21:46 GMT

I believe you can create a local printer using any model script with /dev/null
as the device file.

SAM can do this.

Re: Printing to /dev/null

Al Langen_2 — Wed, 08 Dec 1999 11:58:28 GMT

Not a problem: edit the /etc/lp/member file to print to /dev/null. This
assumes that the /etc/lp/interface file is printing to your device somewhere.

Re: Printing to /dev/null

Anthony Goonetilleke_1 — Wed, 08 Dec 1999 15:07:07 GMT

Thanks for to all those who replied but the best way seemed to be something
like

# lpadmin -ptestprt -v/dev/null -mdumb

here are all the steps for completeness.

# lpshut
scheduler stopped
# lpadmin -ptestprt -v/dev/null -mdumb
# lpsched
scheduler is running
# enable testprt
printer "testprt" now enabled
# accept testprt
destination "testprt" now accepting requests

(Thanks to Michael Horan from HP)