Need help extracting printer driver name from ppd files

[Helge Blischke]

Jeep Guy wrote:

>> Jeep Guy wrote:
>>
>> > Without going into too much detail, I have a few groups of HA print
>> > servers in dev, QA, Prod environments and I need to keep the configs in
>> > sync.  I am writing a perl script that will extract most of the printer
>> > info from the printers.conf file and dump it to a semi-colon delimited
>> > file.  I intend to use this file later to rebuild the basic printer
>> > configs on other systems using the lpadmin command.
>> >
>> > The problem that I am having is that I do not know how to get the print
>> > driver to be used with the lpadmin command.  I want to add the printers
>> > as follows:
>> >
>> > lpadmin -L <location> -D <description> -p <Printer Name> -v <device
>> > URI> -m <printer driver> -E
>> >
>> > I can get everything I need from the printers.conf file except for the
>> > <printer driver>.  It looks like the /etc/cups/ppd/<Printer Name>.ppd
>> > conf file should hold what I am looking for but I don't know if that is
>> > true or if so which variable I should be looking for in that file.
>> >
>> > Would someone knowledgeable please chime in and let me know where to
>> > get the printer driver to plug into the lpadmin command?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> Yes, the /etc/cups/ppd/<printername>.ppd file *is* the PPD associated
>> with the <printername> and reflects the default preferences (like default
>> page size etc.) you configured either using the web interface or the
>> lpadmin command.
>> The problem is that there is - as far as I know - no information abour
>> the source directory the PPD has been installed from. That means your
>> Perl script needs to copy the PPD from the /etc/cups/ppd directory to
>> some globally accessible place (e.g. a NFS accessible directory).
>>
>> Helge
>>
> 
> Thanks Helge,
> 
> In that case what do I supply to the lpadmin command for the <printer
> driver> option?

the full (absolute) path to your copy of the PPD.

Helge