default printer?!

[Susan Wrightson Kotz]

How the heck do you change the default printer in aix, other than deleting
and recreating the virtual queue?

There's no lpadmin command, no option in smit...nothing in the FAQ about this.
We really don't want to have to recreate the queue to do it.

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[Ron Wigmore]

Susan Wrightson Kotz (sus...@decisionsys.com) wrote:
: How the heck do you change the default printer in aix, other than deleting

: and recreating the virtual queue?

The default queue is the first queue in the /etc/qconfig file. I know
it's a SMIT option with AIX 4.1. stopsrc/startsrc the qdaemon will make the
change take effect.

If you've never edited that file before, move both the queue and its device.

Ron,,,

[Terry Haebich]

Another option could be to set variables PRINTER or LPDEST (overides
PRINTER) in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile

Have fun,
Terry

[Tony Gast]

In article <susank.72...@decisionsys.com>, sus...@decisionsys.com (Susan Wrightson Kotz) writes:
|> How the heck do you change the default printer in aix, other than deleting
|> and recreating the virtual queue?
|>

|> There's no lpadmin command, no option in smit...nothing in the FAQ about this.
|> We really don't want to have to recreate the queue to do it.

If there is another way please shoot me ... but, if you shutdown qdaemon and
edit /etc/qconfig, whatever queue is the first in that file is the default
queue. I do not believe there is any other qualifier.
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[DF Russell]

In article <40pvoo$10...@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>, rwig...@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore) writes:
|> Susan Wrightson Kotz (sus...@decisionsys.com) wrote:

|> : How the heck do you change the default printer in aix, other than deleting

|> : and recreating the virtual queue?
|>
|>

|> The default queue is the first queue in the /etc/qconfig file. I know
|> it's a SMIT option with AIX 4.1. stopsrc/startsrc the qdaemon will make the
|> change take effect.
|>
|> If you've never edited that file before, move both the queue and its device.
|>
|> Ron,,,

Umnh, you can also: export PRINTER=queue_name

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