Using CUPS as queue for bash scripts

[Oleg Volkov]

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:55:28PM -0700, Oleg Volkov wrote:
> > Probably I should explain the question in better way.
> >
> > Here is an example of such queue: http://users.ca.astound.net/baspence/AIXtip/jobqueue.htm
> >
> > I want to use queueing from CUPS and run script as printer's back-end.
> >
> > I've managed to configure printer with socket://host:port an netcat listen to that port, but this hack not make me happy because of zero security.
>
> I'd suggest Tea4CUPS (http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups), which
> can do exactly what you want, and more.
>
> bye
>
> Jerome Alet
>

Thanks, this looks promising. I'll create printer with serial:/dev/null and this back-end. Should work.

Thanks again.

Oleg