Cancel prints on menu system

[Nick D'Angelo]

HP Admins,

I am creating a little menu so that I can delegate some of the mundane admin tasks such as cancelling print requests. I would like this done as non root, so I will put the users in the lp group and chmod 775 the /var/spool/lp/requests/* directories.

My only problem is: I would like the menu item to read in the 1, 2, 3 format, with item 2 being, List print jobs and prompt for the print job to cancel by having my admin support staff entering in cancel lp-1459 or quit to return to the menu.

Any ideas on how to get this done?

Thanks,

[John Poff]

Hello,

Here are links to a couple of forum threads about menu scripting. One of the threads has some sample code in attachments. It looks like a good place to start. You can probably modify the menu to handle a choice for cancelling jobs:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x3beff9beca68d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xc1bc79bffde7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


JP

[Jordan Bean]

Perhaps the attached snippet will help.

[Nick D'Angelo]

My apologies for not posting the snippets required for your assistance.

Here is my menu script.

[Nick D'Angelo]

Jordan,

Thanks for your script/snip. I will review and advise, sorry I missed it earlier,

Nickd

[Nick D'Angelo]

Jordan,

Your script is quite good, but the quit does not work and you can not break out of it unless I press Ctrl C.

Was there more to the script, I am assuming.

Nickd

[Jordan Bean]

Select requires numerical input. Anything else is ignored and the list displayed again. The only way to exit the select loop is to enter 1, since quit is listed first. I threw together this snippet to provide an example; It didn't actually come from anything I'm using.

[Fred Martin_1]

Here's a script that uses lpstat to list all printers with jobs in the queue(s), then lets you pick a job by name to cancel. Not very pretty, but works OK.

[Nick D'Angelo]

Sorry, but I am still looking. None of these has worked so far.

[Deshpande Prashant]

A thought..
Create a restricted SAM for the user/group with access to only printer-management [Printers-plotters->LP splloer -> Print requests.

Thanks
Prashant.