I am experimenting with establishing a raw print service to route printer output from a legacy computer system through a CUPS server. The information I have been given or have found points towards using the
The command I use for the listener is:
Which does not give the same results as when nc is run in the background of a user session. What am I doing wrong? Ultimately I expect that I will pipe the output to a local cups printer but for now I just want to get the input into a local file.
nc
utility. I was able to get the nc utility to listen on a port and receive data on it when run in the foreground using nc -lk 192.168.216.41 9100
. This accepts multiple connection sessions and remains running between each.The command I use for the listener is:
/usr/bin/nc -lk 192.168.216.41 9100 >> /var/spool/nc9100/nc9100.txt &
. For this to go further I have to daemonize this. I have the daemonize port and I have tried this:
Code:
daemonize -v \
-c /var/spool/nc9100 \
-e /var/log/cups/nc9100_error.log \
-l /var/run/cups/nc9100.lock \
-p /var/run/cups/nc9100.pid \
-u cups /usr/bin/nc -lk 192.168.216.41 9100 >> /var/spool/nc9100/nc9100.txt
Which does not give the same results as when nc is run in the background of a user session. What am I doing wrong? Ultimately I expect that I will pipe the output to a local cups printer but for now I just want to get the input into a local file.