[Casper] Chain Policies Together

[Steve Wood]

I'm sure there is a very easy way to do this (dummy receipts?), but wanted
to see how y'all would do it.
I am looking to re-number our network here and need to change the printers
on everyone's machines.  So I would have to remove all printers and then add
back the printers for each machine.  I know I can remove the printers via a
login policy, and I can add the printers via a login policy, but how can I
do both at the same time?

I'm thinking it will require two policies, but how can I set one policy to
fire after another policy?  In my joke about dummy receipts above, it seems
that might be the easiest thing:

- fire a login policy that removes all printers and drops an empty package
on the machine
- set another policy to trigger when that receipt is found

Now, my mind is saying it won't work because the second policy won't
recognize the receipt soon enough.  Thoughts?


My other idea for handling this is to simply move the printers.conf file in
a shell script that fires before the rest of the policy, and then add the
printers in the policy.  I'm going to test this one out:

#!/bin/bash/

mv /etc/cups/pritners.conf pritners.conf.old
killall -HUP cupsd

exit 0


If I set that to "before" will it run and then the printers get re-added via
the policy?


Any other ideas for this?


Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integerdallas.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475
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