/dev/null printers - how to change?

[Andy Dzimira]

Hi all,
I'm currently running a D230 HPUX 10.20 box that has printers hanging off DTC boards. I bought a new rp2405 server and added the printers to the spooler using 'Add Remote Printer' in sam.
I can print to the printers from the new box but when I do a lpstat -v it shows all the printers as /dev/null remote to: on 192.168.1.1.
Is there a way to get a unique device name for each printer? I need to point my database spooler at the device path to enable printing from within the database.
Thanks for any info...

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

/dev/null is the device for all remote printers. Your solution would not even work for a single printer because if you directed output to /dev/null it would simply disappear. What you should be avble to do is output to a named pipe that it turn has a daemon connected to it to direct the input to the desired lp command.