Samba printing and /tmp removal.

[butchrecon]

I have a samba server setup. I have some printers set up on this server. Every print job gets saved in the /tmp folder where it resides until I manually remove it. Is there a way to setup samba printing where all print jobs are removed at the end of the night from /tmp? James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

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[fluid11]

I don't know if you can do it from Samba, but you can easily create a cron job that will do this for you.


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[butchrecon]

Thats still more than I know how to do. ;-) James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

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[fluid11]

Sorry. Cron executes commands at scheduled times.

As the root user, type 'crontab -e' to create a crontab file for root. Add a line similar to this...

0 22 * * * /bin/rm -f /tmp/mail*

Put whatever command you use to delete the mail in the double quotes. Thats just a made up example.


The format of cron jobs is 5 time fields followed by the program to run...

minutes(0-59) hours(0-23) day-of-month(1-31) month(1-12) day-of-week(0-7)

The above example will run the command specified every day at 10pm.


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[fluid11]

"Put whatever command you use to delete the mail in the double quotes." --> nevermind that, you don't need double quotes.

One more thing, make sure that the crond daemon is running --> "ps -ef | grep crond". If its not, then "/sbin/service crond start".



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