printing a file from cron using cups and/or lpd

[Stephen Ryan]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 10:08, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> I use a short shell script [see bottom] that produces a nicely
> formatted GNU-style ChangeLog every day (using cvs2cl.pl and cron).  I
> would like to add a print command to the script that cron invokes so
> that the new ChangeLog report is sitting at my printer when I arrive
> in the office.
> 
> I seem to have a problem in my /etc/printcap file that is preventing
> lpd from running.
> 
> My question is How do I edit my /etc/printcap file, or the
> /etc/cups/printers.conf file so that lpd can run successfully?

I don't think you actually want lpd here; in that case, you'd have two
print spoolers fighting over the actual hardware device, and I'm sure
you don't want that.  Additionally, I think that /etc/printcap is
generated by cups and so any changes you make may be overwritten by
cupsd.  I think what you want instead is to install a cups-compatible
lpr.  The CUPS documentation claims one is included, but on Debian (at
least), it's in a separate package named cupsys-bsd.  
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