Unique printjob name

[Emil Isberg]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 Tobias.Gerndt at EnBW.com wrote:
>Everything we tried with a global pre-/postexec or workaround with print
>command failed ...   :-(

How about doing a wrapper shellscript instead?

prompt$ cat /usr/local/bin/sambalpr
#! /bin/bash
MYDIR=/var/spool/samba/printdir$RANDOM

#Preexec
mkdir -p "$MYDIR"
chmod 700 "$MYDIR"

lpr "$@"

#Postexec
rm -rf "$MYDIR"

prompt$

Just make sure that /var/spool/samba is writeable by nobody.
And change the command for printing to be the script instead of lpr
directly.

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