[SunHELP] How to redirect sysLog file to a printer?

[Robert Cross]

>Assuming lp is correctly configured...

>tail -f /var/log/syslog | lpr

>Will.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bego=F1a Llorente" <bllorente at cirsa.com>
>To: <SunHELP at sunhelp.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:51 AM
>Subject: [SunHELP] How to redirect sysLog file to a printer?
>> Hi, can anyone help me? I want to redirect my syslog file to a printer
>> because we want to have a hard copy of applications alarms in paper at
>> the moment they are happening. I'm trying 'tail -f /var/log/syslog >
>> /dev/printer' but it does not print anything. Any idea?

Errm, that won't work as the file is never completed. "tail -20
/var/log/syslog|lpr"
probably would work, but it won't do what Bego=F1a requires.

Personally, I'd go for the straight forward solution as follows:
1.   Hang an ASCII capable printer off of the back of the system directly,
an old
dot matrix is ideal for this.
2.   Setup a print queue to go to this printer (perhaps?)
3.   Update the syslog.conf to send a copy of the desired messages to the
port that
the printer is attached to, e.g.
*.warning /dev/ttys0
4.   Stop and restart syslog to make the change active.

Sorry if some of the details are a bit sketchy, but it's been about 5 years
since I did this last.
A friend of mine was doing something similar, but ended up writing a little
script to send batches
of warnings to the printer, (it was a remote printer so it was best done
this way).

Regards

Robert Cross, Senior Systems Programmer, EDS (UK) Ltd.
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