How to stop rembak sending mail...?

[Andreas Lieser]

Hi,

we are using lots (>5000) of remote printers defined in /etc/qconfig and all
of them use "/usr/lib/lpd/rembak" as backend. If there is something wrong
with the remote printer rembak tries to send a status report per mail to the
user, and because there is no such an user account, thousands of mails per
day are filling Postmaster's Inbox.

Is there a possibility to stop rembak from sending mails? Or how can we get
rid of all those mails without losing any important mail sent to Postmaster?

Here is an example of the original rembak-Mail (It's in german):

Nachricht vom Warteschlangensystem:

: (WARNUNG) 0781-375 Verbindung zu Server fehlgeschlagen.
rembak: errno = 4: Ein Systemaufruf hat eine Unterbrechung empfangen.


Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards,
Andreas.

[Unregistered]

hey

I am not sure how to stop emails with rembak, but....

here is how to stop emails from being sent to the end user from most other backends except rembak

step #1 - create entry in /etc/aliases, "nobody: /dev/null"

step #2 - from UNIX command prompt, type lsvirprt, use up and down arrows to scroll to the print queue that you are wanting to stop emails from being sent, and enter the line number (from the column on the left)

step #3 -

To LIST attributes, enter AttributeName1 ... (* for all attributes)
To CHANGE an attribute value, enter AttributeName=NewValue
To FORMAT and EDIT an attribute value, enter AttributeName~v
To EDIT the attribute file, enter ~v
To terminate, press Enter:

enter "A=0" and then press Enter

then enter "si=nobody" and then press Enter

at the next prompt, just hit Enter again to return to the UNIX prompt

step #4 - repeat for all your (non-rembak) printers that you wish to stop emails from being sent

if you have already figured out how to stop emails with printers that use rembak, can you post that solution?

thanks