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Topics: AIX, System Admin

How to create a null printer

To create a printer queue that dumps its contents to /dev/null, simply run the following command:

# /usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piomkpq -A file -p generic -d null -D asc -q lpnull
This will create a printer queue called lpnull and it will write any print jobs to /dev/null.



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