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User’s Manual InterCon-PrintServer

3. Creating the Spool Directory

Creating a spool directory for the print server and setting the permissions is described below:

# mkdir /usr/spool/<printername>

# chmod 770 /usr/spool/<printername>

# chown daemon /usr/spool/<printername>

# chgrp daemon /usr/spool/<printername>

In our example, the following command would be:

# mkdir /usr/spool/printer

# chmod 770 /usr/spool/printer

# chown daemon /usr/spool/printer

# chgrp daemon /usr/spool/printer

4. Entering the Printer into the Spooler System

The

/etc/printcap

file is the configuration file for the printers in the BSD spooler system. To

integrate the print server into the spooler system a new printer entry must be edited into the

/etc/printcap

file:

<printername>:\

:lp=/dev/<printername>:\

:of=/etc/printserver/interfaces/<printername>:\

:sd=/usr/spool/<printername>:

The entry in our example would be:

printer:\

:lp=/dev/printer:\

:of=/etc/printserver/interfaces/printer:\

:sd=/usr/spool/printer:

The first line of the entry must be at the beginning of a new line, and all following lines must begin

with a tab character. Lines followed by a new line belonging to the previous entry have to be closed by

a \ (backslash) character. No other characters should be placed between the last character of the line

and the backslash. The backslash must be the last character of the line.

Please note:

For printing

PostScript

data on the print server, the entry of the printer in the

/etc/printcap

file

must to contain the

flag (suppress header). In our example, we would enter:

printer:\

:lp=/dev/printer:\

:of=/etc/printserver/interfaces/printer:\

:sd=/usr/spool/printer:sh: