re-direct a print job request to new printer

[Aussan]

Good Day every one, and happy new year

we are on hp-ux 11.11
i would like to know if there is a way to Automatically redirect a print request going to printerA and sending it to printerB

i know lpmove will move current request but what about future request

so if someone sends a request to printerA it will automatically send it to printerB

Thank you in advance

[Pete Randall]

How are your printers defined? If you use hppi and the printers are identified by IP address, you can just switch the IP address of printerA to that of printerB.


Pete

[Aussan]

the 2 printers are remote printers
definded with hostname and ip

so are you saying the 2 printers should have the same ip address?

[Dennis Handly]

>so are you saying the 2 printers should have the same IP address?

Did you want to alias the two printer names since A is no longer there?

[Bill Hassell]

The simplest way to do this is to delete printerA then create a class called printerA that contains one printer named printerB. This effectively aliases the two names so that printerA sends data to printerB. Normally, printer classes are used for a bunch of printers but just one printer works just fine.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Sorry, here are the commands:

# lpshut
# ps -fu lp
(make sure there are no lp processes running)

then:
# lpadmin -xprinterA
# lpadmin -pprinterB -cprinterA

NOTE: lp commands do not allow a space after the option. The above assumes that printerB exists and is working OK. All requests sent to printerA will appear on printerB.

[Aussan]

thank you everyone