[Samba] bsd printing and samba 4.17

[Peter Milesson]

On 2/8/24 08:57, Piviul via samba wrote:
> On 2/7/24 16:06, Peter Milesson via samba wrote:
>> Hi Piviul,
>>
>> I use the fantastically simple utility inoticoming for processing 
>> files hitting a directory during more than 10 years. I use it like this:
>>
>> inoticoming <watched dir> --suffix pdf sh <script for processing> {} 
>> \; 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>>
>> In my case i use it for "remote" copying. The scanned file is stored 
>> in the <watched dir> and sent to a remote printer through the <script 
>> for processing> Note, the --suffix is case sensitive.
>>
>> inoticoming is available in Debian Bookworm.
>
> Thanks Peter, could be a solution; can I ask you something more about 
> inoticoming? I ask you because to monitor files added to some 
> directories and run consequently actions, I'm using the inotify-tools. 
> So I have created a service that read a .conf that contains the 
> directories to monitor and the actions to take. But I'm not a debian 
> developer and at every release upgrade I have some problem to have it 
> working... so I would ask you if inoticoming is already a service and 
> I can configure monitoring sources and actions to take in one or more 
> .conf files... should be great!
>
> Best regards
>
> Piviul
>
>
Hi Piviul,

Inoticoming runs as a daemon, using inotify. You can run as many daemons 
as you please for different paths and/or file extensions. Many 
distributions offer it as a package, but for example in Slackware, which 
in my case is the server OS, you need to compile it yourself from 
source. But I guess you don't have to update it very often. It's an old 
(but useful) piece of software. Below, I show 2 different cases of the 
scripts that are called from inoticoming:


#!/bin/bash
PGMDIR="/tmp/procurement"
if [ -r $PGMDIR/$1 ] && [ -s $PGMDIR/$1 ]; then
   lp -d Copier Procurement -o fit-to-page -o media=a4 $PGMDIR/$1
   rm $PGMDIR/$1
fi


#!/bin/bash
PGMDIR="/tmp/sales"
PRINTER="192.168.1.206"
while :
do
   ORGFILE=$(inotifywait -q -e create $PGMDIR --format "%w%f")
   echo "$ORGFILE"|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'|grep ".xps" 1> /dev/null 
2> /dev/null
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
     hose $PRINTER 9100 --out cat $ORGFILE
   fi
   rm $ORGFILE
done


In the first example, the file is sent to the local lp daemon, in the 
2nd I use the equally ancient, but very useful, utility hose, to send 
files that pop up directly to a network connected printer. You can tweak 
everything to your liking, that's the best part of those tools.

Hope that you get it sorted.

Peter