help remote print to bsd from sysV
Chris Davies
chris at vision.UUCP
Thu Jan 10 04:48:53 AEST 1991
In article <6610 at biophys.zir.ethz.ch> ruba at molbio.ethz.ch (Rudolf Baumann)
writes:
>I use the followin lp interface on the SysV machine:
[...]
> cat "$file" 2>&1 | rsh BSD-machine -l print lpr -Pps || exit 1
You will get problems if the remote host "BSD-machine" is down, or not
available across the network for any reason. We have a similar setup and I
found that it was necessary to test the result status from rsh (well, we have
rcmd on our TCP/IP implementation) and retry after eg 30 seconds if the
connection failed. Thus you get (approximately),
: while :
: do
: if cat "$MYFILE" | rcmd "$RHOST" -l "$RUSER" lp ...
: then
: break
: else
: sleep 60
: fi
: done
Chris
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