This sounds exactly like printer classes available in the (Open)Solaris
LP service. You create a printer
class by adding printers to it and delete either explicitly or by
removing the last member printer.
# lpadmin -p foo -c class
# lpadmin -p bar -c class
will create a class with foo and bar as members.
# lpadmin -x class
will remove the class, but not the member queues
# lpadmin -x foo
# lpadmin -x bar
will remove the queues for foo and bar from the service. When the
last member of class is removed (bar), class will be removed as well.
Also, only local print queues can be members of a class.
-Norm
Barth Weishoff wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Under Novell Netware and even in Windows NT, there's a concept called
> Printer Pools. These are simply print queues with multiple printers
> available to service print requeusts sent to the queue. For example, if one
> printer is in use, the print-pool will direct the next job to an unused
> printer, or if a printer is offline, the queue will make note of this and
> send the job to a printer that is online.
>
> Does this functionality exist in (Open)Solaris?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -BW
>
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