default printer

[madra]

This may be a numpty question, but I don't care if it gets me the right answer, but...

If no default printer is specified, does the system use the first printer to be listed via lpstat/smitty spooler-list all queues ?

How can you specify a different default printer for a User ID ?


thanks


madra

 

[khalidaaa]

When i first looked into this, i found this site which says its an environment variable called PRINTER:

http://books.google.com.bh/books?id...7fSHuck&sig=dFS9ZPD7UfDWea3BsuO6B3A6exA&hl=en

But later i found this site which says its LPDEST:

http://www.ahinc.com/aix/printer.htm

lpr sends files to the system default printer or to the printer specified by the environment variable LPDEST. If the LPDEST variable has no value, the PRINTER variable is used. If this environmental variable is not set, then the system default printer is used.

Then this site confirmed that it is LPDEST by showing different Unix flavors:

http://www.unixguide.net/unixguide.shtml

LPDEST is what you are looking for!

Regards,
Khalid