Re: Mailing printer output from tn5250 linux printserver

[Jason Felice <jfelice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mira Houska, TESmedia" wrote:
> 
> Dear Sirs/Madam,
> I found your e-mail addresses at man pages for tn5250 and scs2ascii. I want 
>to ask you for help about following problem:
> 
> I am running tn5250 version 0.15.7 as printserver on Linux RH 6.2 machine. I 
>do not want to physically print the output, but email this immediately after 
>end of each print job.
> 
> Do you have any idea?
> Thank you
> Regards

This can be fairly easily accomplished under Linux with the tn5250d
program, filtering
through the sendmail program.  On RH6.x, sendmail is at
/usr/bin/sendmail, so you
can do something like this:

tn5250d -c " |scs2ascii |sed '1i\
Subject: This is the subject\
To: Jason M. Felice <jfelice@cronosys.com>\
From: THE PRINT SPOOLER <root@mybox>\
\
' |sendmail -t" ...

Where `...' is the other switches to connect as the right device and to
the host and
all.  (I'm a little fuzzy on tn5250d - it's been awhile.)

Note that if you are running as a user other than root, delete the
`From:' line, otherwise
sendmail will complain that you're trying to spoof another user.

These are standard mail headers: addresses are separated on the `To:'
line with commas, you
can add other things like receipt requests, etc., if you choose, just
copy those headers
from an existing email.

Disclaimer: This is untested, although I've done something similar for a
fax queue.  It
probably works.

-Jason M. Felice <jfelice@cronosys.com>

P.S.  I would appreciate it if any future requests regarding the tn5250
software be sent
to the linux5250 support list - you'll get more eyeballs there anyway. 
You can subscribe
at:

http://www.midrange.com/linux5250.shtml

I'm copying this reply there.

> 
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