FreeBSD port for redirecting printer

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, February 26, 2013 a las 06:16:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió:

> i need to emulate print server on device running FreeBSD (which do other 
> things in the same time) - as standard port 9100 not lpd.
> 
> Can it be done.
> 
> yes i know i can just add to inetd.conf cat >/dev/ulpt0 BUT
> 
> - it will accept a connection even if printer is not connected
> - it doesn't work bidirectionally (usually not needed but anyway)
> 
> Anyone knows a program from ports (or not) to do this?

Install CUPS (from our ports), catch the incoming data on 9100 with
ncat(1) (from ports) and pipe the data to a "lpr -P.... -o raw" command (of CUPS)
which puts a job on the queue for your printer until the
printer comes ready.

	matthias
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