Copying Printer Definitions on Tru64

[Mike Miller_8]

I need to copy the printer definitions from several Tru64 servers to several other (new) Tru64 servers.

What is the easiest way to do this ?
What are a few good references (examples) ?

Thanks.

= Mike =

[Johan Brusche]

For BSD printing you need to copy /etc/printcap and for each printer-name create a spooling directory with that name in /usr/spool.

Then use "lpc check", and it will tell you if you forgot something.

JB.

[Ralf Puchner]

supported way:
# lprsetup

or via sysman station.

[Mohamed K Ahmed]

It is better to do it through lprsetup then add the printers with their parameters, then you have to add entries for the printers' IP addresses in /etc/hosts file if they are on the network (TCPIP), add entry for the printer services and port in /etc/services if they are connected to the network (TCPIP), then you have to add spool directories for each printer in /var/spool.
Make directories for spooling as follows

# mkdir lpdn (n is the printer's number)
# chmod 775 lpdn
# chown daemon lpdn
# chgrp daemon lpdn

If you need further assisstance, let me know

HTH
Mohamed

[Abdul Rahiman · Accepted solution]

Mike,

I have been in the same situation before and had to migrate so many (talking about 100s) of printers making it virtually impossible to use the 'lprsetup' command. Here is what I did, I merged the /etc/hosts (most printers were network printers) file from the source to the one on target server as well as the /etc/printcap file.

Then I ran the following script to configure the spool directories.. check this out..
#!/bin/ksh

# Notes for creating printer support files and directories
c=0
cat /etc/printcap |grep "|" > printer_list.dat

for i in `cut -f1 -d "|" printer_list.dat`
do
echo $i
c=`expr $c + 1`
k=`echo $i | cut -f 2 -d 'p'`
touch /usr/adm/${i}err
chown daemon:daemon /usr/adm/${i}err
mkdir /var/spool/lpd${k}
chown daemon:daemon /var/spool/lpd${k}
done
echo ""
echo "Created the spool directories for $c printers"

Hope this helps,
regds,
Abdul Rahman.