topic Capturing spoolfiles in Operating System - HP-UX

Capturing spoolfiles

PAUL BAKER — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:09:28 GMT

I am trying to retain a copy of a spoolfile after it has successfully printed. The problem is that after a successful print, the dfA... file is deleted from the /var/spool/lp/request/ directory.
Any ideas? We are running HP-UX 10.20.

Paul Baker

Re: Capturing spoolfiles

Devbinder Singh Marway — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:17:37 GMT

why don't you disable the printer , send the file to it and copy it and then re-enable the printer
or in your printer interface script ( depends which model you have defined) where it does the print pipe nad tee it to a file

printer cmds | tee /tmp/filename

HTH

Re: Capturing spoolfiles

John McWilliams — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:47:10 GMT

Can you change the format of the proccess that generates the output to send it to a file and then print it. Otherwise add a line in the start of your printer interface file to copy the dfA file to another location.