Print queue redirection

[Michael Jones]

Anyone done any print queue redirection? I want a way to send all the
current and future print jobs of a 'getting fixed printer' to another
print queue.
My print queues are set up as Network print servers (Jet Direct, etc)
There is a /var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/ddi diretory with my queues names
in it.

I checked recent posts about print redirection. The only I found was
from 1995!
But this referred to /var/spool/lpd/qdir files. My directory did not
have any files in it.

I suspect there is not an official IBM way to do this, but perhaps
someone has cookbook on how to do it non-IBM.

M.

[LAIX Software Consulting]

If all you want to do is send jobs from one Jetdirect queue and point them
to another Jetdirect, the easiest thing - edit /etc/qconfig and change the
hostname in the "backend = ....../piojetd hostname" line.

Best regards,
Paul

"Michael Jones" <jonesmroot@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:4eb52d14.0309220443.2d69a578@posting.google.c om...

> Anyone done any print queue redirection? I want a way to send all the
> current and future print jobs of a 'getting fixed printer' to another
> print queue.
> My print queues are set up as Network print servers (Jet Direct, etc)
> There is a /var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/ddi diretory with my queues names
> in it.
>
> I checked recent posts about print redirection. The only I found was
> from 1995!
> But this referred to /var/spool/lpd/qdir files. My directory did not
> have any files in it.
>
> I suspect there is not an official IBM way to do this, but perhaps
> someone has cookbook on how to do it non-IBM.
>
> M.

[Michael Jones]

"LAIX Software Consulting" <laixsoft@flash.net> wrote in message news:<kaMbb.7397$yU7.6697@newssvr31.news.prodigy.c om>...

> If all you want to do is send jobs from one Jetdirect queue and point them
> to another Jetdirect, the easiest thing - edit /etc/qconfig and change the
> hostname in the "backend = ....../piojetd hostname" line.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul

Paul's advice above was very helpful. I simply changed the
/etc/qconfig backend stanza and recycled the spooler src group.

This AIX group is great.