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pcnfsd(1M) pcnfsd(1M)

• pcnfsd includes a mechanism to deﬁne virtual printers known only to pcnfsd clients. Each of

these printers is deﬁned by an entry in the ﬁle /etc/pcnfsd.conf using the following format:

printer name alias-for command

with the following values:

name The name of the printer, as it will be referred to in print requests from

clients.

alias-for The corresponding name for the printer, as it is deﬁned in the line printer

spooling system. For example, a request to display the queue for name will

be translated into the corresponding request for the printer alias-for. If you

have deﬁned a printer within pcnfsd that has no corresponding printer

deﬁned in the line printer spooling system, use a single hyphen (-) for this

ﬁeld. For an example, see the deﬁnition of the printer test in the examples

section, below.

command A command that will be executed whenever a ﬁle is printed on name. This

command is executed by the POSIX shell, /usr/bin/sh using the -c

option. For complex operations, construct an executable shell program and

execute that in command.

Within command the following tokens will be replaced:

Token Substitution

$FILE Replaced by the full path name of the print data ﬁle. When

the command has been executed, the ﬁle will be unlinked.

$USER Replaced by the user name of the user logged in to the client

system.

$HOST Replaced by the host name of the client system.

Reconﬁguration

By checking the modiﬁcation time (and contents) of the ﬁle /var/spool/lp/pstatus

, pcnfsd will

detect when printers have been added or deleted, and will rebuild its list of valid printers. However,

pcnfsd does not monitor the ﬁle /etc/pcnfsd.conf

for updates; if you change this ﬁle, you must kill

and restart

pcnfsd for the changes to take effect.

EXAMPLES

Given the following entries for the ﬁle /etc/pcnfsd.conf:

printer abc lj lp -dlj -oraw

printer test - /usr/bin/cp $FILE /usr/tmp/$HOST-$USER

If a user on a client system prints a job on printer abc, the request will be sent to destination lj in raw

mode.

If the client requests a list of the print queue for printer abc, the pcnfsd daemon will translate this into

a request for a listing for printer lj.

Printer test is used only for testing. Any ﬁle sent to this printer will be copied into the directory

/usr/tmp. Any request to list the queue, check the status, etc., of printer test will be rejected because

alias-for has been speciﬁed as a hyphen (

-).

FILES

/etc/pcnfsd.conf

/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

/var/spool/lp/pstatus

/var/spool/pcnfs

/etc/shells