From: brian irvin (brian944us@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 14:59:03 EST
Thanks to Bill Hassell, Breet geer and Richard wright
all who gave very useful tips.
Question:I need to write a script, which captures all
the print
jobs older than 7 days and send a mail alert to the
admin.
Answers:
Bill:
Since a the print jobs are in the same directory
structure,
just use find -mtime +7 to locate the jobs. Something
like
this:
find /var/spool/lp/request -name 'dA*' -type f -mtime
+7
The result from this search wil return all files that
have
not been printed in the last 7 days. To mail the
results
there are files located:
#!/usr/bin/sh
set -u
export PATH=/usr/bin
MYFILES=$(find /var/spool/lp/request -name 'dA*' -type
f -mtime +7)
[ -n "$MYFILE" ] && echo "$MYFILE" \
| mailx -s "Spool files > 7 days old"
sysadmin@yourcompany.com
Just store the above in a file, add it to cron and run
it once
a day, perhaps early in the morning.
--
Bill Hassell
-------------------------------------------------------
Here is a script that does almost exactly what you
want.
It will warm about print jobs over one day old and
delete print jobs over a week old.
=========================================
#!/bin/sh
# * lpdelete - Remove old files from spool queue and
notify * #
# * USAGE: lpdelete.sh
#
# This script will run "lpstat" command and look at
all entries.
# An email will be sent to "LP_mail" with a warning
for every file
# over one day old. For every file over 7 days old,
the print job
# will be canceled. These will be listed in the
message as well.
#
# * END
PR=$(basename $0)
tmp=/tmp/${PR}.$$
#
# to see who "LP_mail" is, look at /etc/mail/aliases
and view the "include file"
#
TOADDR=LP_mail
# if ctrl-c then remove the tmp file
trap 'INTERPT' SIGINT
INTERPT ()
{
rm $tmp
exit
}
HOST=$(hostname)
ERROR=0
#
# set DDCHK1 ... DDCHKn to days that are to be skipped
# in the format of MMM DD
#
DD=$(date "+%d")
MM=$(date "+%m")
YY=$(date "+%Y")
DD=$(echo $DD | sed 's/^0//')
Mon=$(date "+%b")
DDCHK1="$Mon $DD "
# Function routine to calculate the previous day
previous_day ()
{
((DD = $DD - 1))
if [ $DD -eq 0 ];then
((MM = $MM - 1))
if [ $MM -eq 0 ];then
((YY = $YY - 1))
MM=12
fi
DD=$(cal $MM $YY | tail -n2 | head -n1
| awk '{print $NF}')
Mon=$(cal $MM $YY | head -n1 | awk
'{print $1}' | cut -c1-3)
fi
}
previous_day
DDCHK2="$Mon $DD "
previous_day
DDCHK3="$Mon $DD "
previous_day
DDCHK4="$Mon $DD "
previous_day
DDCHK5="$Mon $DD "
previous_day
DDCHK6="$Mon $DD "
previous_day
DDCHK7="$Mon $DD "
lpstat -o -i | \
#
# Following edits will Join two line entry to one line
# then eliminate any "on ..." and "copies" text.
# Then awk is used to extract the desired fields
#
sed -n '/^[a-z,A-Z,0-9].*/{
N
s/\n/ /
p
}' | \
sed -e 's/ on [^ ]*//' -e 's/[0-9 ]* copies//' | \
awk '{print $1, $2, $5, $6, $7, $9}' \
> ${tmp}
#
# If the queue is empty, then put something in for
# email message to show.
#
if [ $(cat ${tmp} | wc -l) -eq 0 ];then
echo '-none-' > ${tmp}
fi
sendmail $TOADDR << __EOF__
Subject: print failure report for $HOST
SendTo: $TOADDR
DisplayFrom: "$HOST $PR results"
The following print jobs are more than one day old.
The printer may require attention for supplies or
jams.
$(grep -v "$DDCHK1" ${tmp})
The following print jobs are more than seven days old
and have been deleted.
$(grep -E -v
"($DDCHK1|$DDCHK2|$DDCHK3|$DDCHK4|$DDCHK5|$DDCHK6|$DDCHK7)"
${tmp})
The following printers are disabled
$(lpstat -p | grep disabled)
__EOF__
while read JB TO MM DD TI SZ
do
/usr/bin/cancel $JB
done << __EOF2__
$(grep -E -v
"($DDCHK1|$DDCHK2|$DDCHK3|$DDCHK4|$DDCHK5|$DDCHK6|$DDCHK7)"
${tmp})
__EOF2__
rm ${tmp}
exit
====================================================
Richard Wright
Thanks
Brian.
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