Re: [webmin-l] Printer administration Slown

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

That's not a bad idea - I'll have the next release of webmin use the 
printers.conf file, at least for the main menu. Hopefully Sun doesn't 
change the format in future releases!

  - Jamie

John Samson wrote:
> Jamie,
> Would it be possible to read the printer names from /etc/printers.conf (Solaris) rather than issuing lpstat -v ?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:11 PM
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: RE: [webmin-l] Printer administration Slown
> 
> 
> That's as good as it gets unfortunately - webmin runs the command 
> lpstat -v  to get the names of all printers, so if it is slow the module
> will be too..
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 02:40, John Samson wrote:
> 
>>Jamie,
>>I finally found the printer module config and followed your advised.
>>It has improved a little but it is still a bit slow.
>>
>>Any idea ?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>John
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Samson 
>>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:37 AM
>>To: web...@li...
>>Subject: RE: [webmin-l] Printer administration Slown
>>
>>
>>Jamie,
>>I appreciate your response. But I can't find the module config on the webmin menu. 
>>Is it available from the web-based menu or do I need to manually edit a file.
>>
>>Thank you very much.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>John
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...]
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:11 PM
>>To: web...@li...
>>Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Printer administration Slown
>>
>>
>>The module's main page tries to run lpstat -l -p for each printer to get
>>it's details, which can be slow on Solaris. The work-around is to click
>>on Module Config and change the 'On main page show' option so that only
>>printer names appear.
>>
>> - Jamie
>>
>>On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 00:44, John Samson wrote:
>>
>>>We are planning on using webmin to control our printer job queues. Going into printer administration takes a long time. We have approximately 600+ printers.
>>>I've seen a similar post on this issue which could be related to the lpstat -l -p printername command.
>>>Can it just read the /etc/printers.conf instead of executing the lpstat since we are only after in controling the printer queues ?
>>>
>>>I would greatly appreciate if anybody could provide a workaround or a fix to the problem. 
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>John