Dave Thayer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 03:17:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [...] > > > > I might have left out detail that might prove to be important. This > > > > printer queue will be shared over the network so that a 911 call > > > > notification server can print to it, generating both the printout and an > > > > email and a beeper message (via email). The 911 call notification server > > > > is running on a WindowsNT (gag, aack) box. Currently, the 911 software > > > > can't print and email, so I wanted to bring Linux into the picture to > > > > demonstrate to the big-whigs that Linux solves problems. Only thing is, > > > > I've been trying for two years off-and-on to solve this problem with > > > > no results. > [...] > > What if, instead of sending the message to a print queue and generating an > email, you generated an email and then printed it? You could do this by > having the 911 software email to an account on your *nix box which has a > ~/.forward containing something like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "|lpr" > > Any mail to this account would be forwarded and printed. Of course, this > might include spam... > > Cheers, > your pal dave. > -- > Dave Thayer > Denver, Colorado USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's an option, and I might resort to it, but it would mean setting up a mail server on the Linux box, which isn't as "clean" in the eyes of the administration as a print server.
