On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote:
> I've got an /etc/printcap (permissions = -rw-r--r-- root root) that looks
> like:
>
> beeper:\
> :if=/home/westk/beeper-filter:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:
>
> (permissions on /var/spool/lpd/beeper = -drwxrwxr-x lp lp)
>
> and a /home/westk/beeper-filter (permissions = -rwxr-xr-x root root) that
> looks like:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $recipient = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
> $subject = "Beeper Message";
> $mailprog = "mail";
>
> open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -s \'$subject\' $recipient");
>
> print MAIL "------------ Header Line\n\n";
>
> while (<STDIN>) {
> print MAIL $_;
> }
>
> print MAIL "\n------------ Footer Line\n";
> close MAIL;
>
>
>
> As root in any non-empty directory (such as /etc), I'm typing
> ls -l|lpr -Pbeeper
> Then four files appear in the spool directory and stay until I rm them,
> and the mail message is apparently never generated (at least it never
> shows up in my mailbox).
>
> I've also tried putting a
> print "Text";
> just after the
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> line, but I never see the test message printed. However, I just realized,
> could the test message be printing to /dev/null? If so, how do I redirect
> the test message to my screen so that I can verify that the beeper-filter
> is being run when I print something?
>
> (Thanks to Jim Foltz for getting me this far, esp the basic script.)
>
PS: I just learned that if I type at the /home/west/ command prompt:
echo test | ./beeper-filter
the email message shows up. So the script works; it's just not being
called when I print something. Any clues?
