tunelp /dev/lp? -r
Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi All, : One of my debian boxes works additionally as a print server for a few : Win98 and Linux machines. The problem is however, that sometimes users : send something in the wrong format, or Windows programs crashes in the middle : of the print job, producing the corrupted output. I would like to provide : my users with the possibility of cleaning up the print queue, and resetting : the printer. It can be done with a small perl setuid'ed script, but there is : a problem with my printer (HP-DJ670C) - There is no way to clean up it's : buffer and reinitialize it in other way, than by switching off and on the power : :-(. : Does anybody know how to reinitialize the printer in software way? : Please keep in mind, that the trasmission may be stopped in the middle of : binary data, so sending of any initialization codes in data stream may not : give reasonable results. The toggling of INIT line in the LPT port probably : could give good results, but I couldn't find any IOCTL to perform it : with the standard lpt driver... : It is possible to rmmod the lpt driver, run the program which takes over the : lpt ports, sets the INIT line low for a second, and then insmod the lpt : driver again, but it seems to be a very dirty trick :-(. : -- : Thanks for any suggestions : Wojciech Zabolotny : http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab : http://www.freedos.org Free DOS for free people! : -- : Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- *********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ************* pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? *************/ --
