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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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