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trap "printer busy" on shell script

 
roberto salvatori
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‎10-09-2003 11:58 PM

‎10-09-2003 11:58 PM

trap "printer busy" on shell script

hi all,
what i wanna do is to trap on script shell if one or more printers are busy.
lpstat have no option to do this (i think so).
what can i do? have someone an idea?
thanks in advice

roberto salvatori
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Robert-Jan Goossens
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‎10-10-2003 12:17 AM

‎10-10-2003 12:17 AM

Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script

Hi roberto,

Not sure but I think lpstat -p will inform if printer is busy.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.
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roberto salvatori
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‎10-10-2003 12:23 AM

‎10-10-2003 12:23 AM

Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script

true, lpstat doesn't show if printer is busy or not. i wanna trap the same thing like on sam. waiting for someone. roberto
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Mark Grant
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‎10-10-2003 12:37 AM

‎10-10-2003 12:37 AM

Re: trap "printer busy" on shell script

Does "lpstat -t | grep "printing" do what you are after?
Never preceed any demonstration with anything more predictive than "watch this"
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