On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > > I don't know if you can get JetAdmin for Linux, but I suggest looking > at CUPS. I have JetAdmin at work on Solaris and CUPS at home and they > seem pretty similar to me. When you say check the status of an HP > printer, what do you mean? Is it something more than a cron job > grepping the result of 'lpstat -p printer'?
No, JetAdmin and CUPS/lp* do very different things. Among other things, JetAdmin and friends can communicate via SNMP to a networked printer, allowing you to do fun things like reboot it or query paper status and things like that. CUPS/lp* only handle local queue stuff. They don't do much talking to printers beyond sending jobs to them. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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