From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 12:13:06 EDT
What sort of printers are these? Remote or local?
Are you printing from AIX, or from some application?
I think it might be possible to mess around with /etc/qconfig - that would
work OK for remote print queues I'm fairly sure - but my first thought would
be to pass the print queue to use to the program as a parameter, or perhaps
have a script which you call from within various scripts/programs which
could check the time and pass back a printer name. (There are several
possibilities along those lines, depending on exactly what you're doing.)
If you're printing from an application such as SAP, which wouldn't be
amenable to having a print queue as a parameter, you could set up a dummy
print queue, which is permanently held, then have a background job which
continually checks it and re-queues jobs to the correct printer.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:BiermanS@METHODISTHEALTH.ORG]
> Sent: 16 May 2003 16:52
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: redirecting printing
>
>
> We have a need to redirect print jobs from PrinterA to
> PrinterB at 6:00am and then at 6:00pm restore the redirect so
> we are printing back to PrinterA, until 6:00am again.
>
> Is there a way to do this with perhaps a cronjob?
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