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Mark Knecht skrev: |
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> Hello, |
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> Thanks to those that helped me with the new printer thread the |
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> other day. We purchased an HP M1522nf from NewEgg. It arrived in under |
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> 24 hours and tool me less than 2 minutes to get a test page. Quite a |
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> success. Thanks! |
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> I'd now like to set up a cron job to print a small file each |
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> evening just to keep the printers rollers moving every day. I've never |
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> used cron before. It looks *fairly* straight forward but I'd like to |
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> get some verification if I might. Thanks again. |
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> 1) In /root I created a small executable file that store df -h to a |
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> file and then I print that file using lpr. I executed that file using |
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> lpr -D HP_M1522nf print_todays_info and it appears to have worked. |
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> (I'm remote but I do see a print job in the CUPS records. I'll call |
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> later to see if it's printing correctly but I suspect it is.) |
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> 2) As root I ran crontab -e. The editor (nano) came up fine. |
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> 3) I entered the following line for testing |
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> 5 * * * * /root/print_todays_info |
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> If I'm correct then I understand that this would run the job every |
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> hour 5 minutes after the hour. I'll change it to |
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> 5 1 * * * /root/print_todays_info |
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> after I've tested it a bit more to make it a 1:05AM print job. |
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> Looking in the CUPS logs on the remote machine it appears a new copy |
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> printed a 5 minutes after 9AM so I'm thinking it's set up. |
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> Does this sound about right? Anything else I should be doing? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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The cronjob is right. You can also put your script under /etc/cron.daily |
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and you won't have to edit the crontab manually. I also prefer to make |
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sure that local mail delivery is working so cron may mail the results |
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somewhere. |
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//*David Sveningsson [eXt]* |
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Freelance coder | Game Development Student |
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http://sidvind.com |
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Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow |
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man by using the One True Brace Style, even if thou likest it not, for |
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thy creativity is better used in solving problems than in creating |
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beautiful new impediments to understanding. |
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