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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:09:43 -0500 Subject: Re: PPR: Receiving mail from PPR Alain.Lachapelle@Heimannsystems.Com wrote: > Hello, > > I have the following configuration (ppad show hp2100) as the only > printer > defined in the machine: > Alert frequency: 0 (never send alerts) > Alert method: none > Alert address: none > Flags: no no (banners discouraged, trailers discouraged) These settings tell PPR not to send messages to an operator when an attempt to contact the printer fails. > All alert parameters are turned off. But the user receives > nevertheless a mail message when trying to print (ppr ...options, > etc.., file.) when the > pprd deamon being loaded. Messages to users are a different matter. They tell users what has happened to their print jobs. You may what to suppress the message which says that a job has been printed, but leave the messages which say that explain why the job couldn't be printed. Do do this for a printer: $ ppad switchset myprn --responder-options='printed=no' I don't think you should suppress all messages to the users. If you do, they will get annoyed because their jobs will "vanish" and they won't know why. > The message is the following: > > From: root@lx_testd.st-e-el.heimann (Cron Daemon) > To: hitrax@lx_testd.st-e-el.heimann > Subject: Cron <hitrax@lx_testd> /usr/lib/ppr/bin/ppad remind > > Fatal: can't open FIFO, pprd is probably not running > > ---------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------ > > I have looked at the cron directories in /etc but so far couldn't find > a "remind" entry. I'm not familiar with cron configuration, so I may > be > missing something. > Is it possible to supress altogether these e-mail warnings ? It is in the crontab of the PPR user. To edit it, do this: # su ppr $ crontab -e This job is run twice a day. If no printers are stalled, it doesn't send a message. It is sending you messages because pprd isn't running. The default crontab runs this command at 9AM and 4PM. The idea is to inform the operator of problems when he shows up for work and just before he leaves. By the way, why is the PPR daemon shut down on your computer?