On Friday 30 August 2002 09:24, Alex Specogna wrote:
>I shall keep this brief.. has anybody on this list got the label
> printing in Amanda working? I don't seem to get ANY output at all
> when I define the lbl-templ directive in the tape type.  Is there
> anything wrong with the following definition?
>
>define tapetype DLT {
>    comment "DLT tape drives"
>    lbl-templ "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Backup/DLT.ps"
>    length 40000 mbytes
>    filemark 2000 kbytes
>    speed 1536 kbytes
>}
>
>
>I have tried running amreport to a file and e-mail and they both
> work.  The print to postscript just does nothing runs merrily
> along and then terminates with no errors.
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated
>
>Thanks

I ran a label printer for a while, but its awful hard to read one 
sized to fit in the DDS2 casette box, not to mention the paper 
debris getting into the tapes wasn't such a great idea, so I 
stopped.

But it seems to me I had to do something with the perms someplace, 
like amanda didn't have access to the printer or something along 
those lines.  That was back in jurrasic times when I was using 
LPRng, but now I've seen the light and use cups.  In any event 
today I'd set it up to use the 3-hole.ps and keep them in a 3 ring 
binder rather than risk contaminating the tape by tossing a slip of 
freshly cut to size paper in its container.

This admittedly is a difficult area to debug because the printer 
manager in use will usually just delete the job without a trace 
before you can get at it to see what went south, usually within 
about a minute.

-- 
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