Printing to /dev/null

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

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

[Rick Taylor_5]

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

SAM can do this.

[Al Langen_2]

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.

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

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)