Hello, Thanks to those that helped me with the new printer thread the other day. We purchased an HP M1522nf from NewEgg. It arrived in under 24 hours and tool me less than 2 minutes to get a test page. Quite a success. Thanks!
I'd now like to set up a cron job to print a small file each evening just to keep the printers rollers moving every day. I've never used cron before. It looks *fairly* straight forward but I'd like to get some verification if I might. Thanks again. 1) In /root I created a small executable file that store df -h to a file and then I print that file using lpr. I executed that file using lpr -D HP_M1522nf print_todays_info and it appears to have worked. (I'm remote but I do see a print job in the CUPS records. I'll call later to see if it's printing correctly but I suspect it is.) 2) As root I ran crontab -e. The editor (nano) came up fine. 3) I entered the following line for testing 5 * * * * /root/print_todays_info If I'm correct then I understand that this would run the job every hour 5 minutes after the hour. I'll change it to 5 1 * * * /root/print_todays_info after I've tested it a bit more to make it a 1:05AM print job. Looking in the CUPS logs on the remote machine it appears a new copy printed a 5 minutes after 9AM so I'm thinking it's set up. Does this sound about right? Anything else I should be doing? Thanks, Mark
