Printer question

This question may sound very stupid to you guys...

I am having a problem with a dot-matrix printer, which is named printer16 in our SunOS 5.6 system. Since it is a hardware problem, I want to use an alternate dot-matrix printer as a spare. But, before replacing the printer physically, I need to gather the current printer's configuration.

I know how to disable a print queue, but I just don't know where to go (which file, etc.) in order to gather the settings.

I typed lpstat -s, and here is the information that I got for the printer:

device for printer16: /dev/null

What does it mean?

Thanks in advance,

Anne (from Canada)

HI Anne,

If I were behind a SUN Solaris machine 'dd be able to trace it. NOw please examine the following command :

find / -type d -name interface -print

This should lead you to the interface scripts.

It could be something of /var/spool/interface or something or /etc/spool/...

Just let us know if you need more info.

Regs David

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for, and I found additional information almost instantly.

Thanks again!

A very happy network admin