Creating a new backend.

pipitas pipitas at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 12:40:34 PST 2010


On 10/25/2010 05:14 PM, Roger Wolff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem that CUPS might solve....
>
> I have 4 DVD burners, and I'd like to use a queuing program to handle
> the queuing and job-distribution..... I thought I'd make a web-interface
> like CUPS has, but then it hit me: Why not use CUPS itself?
>
> So: Will CUPS handle 4G+ queue files? And: how do I tell cups to use my
> bash-script for the backend?


Have a look at these example and testing backends, called "2file" and
"dir", written in Bash:

   http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDEPrint/Tools%2BUtilities#.272dir.27_CUPS_backend_script_.28Bash_code.29

As for the 4G+ file size: look at the documentation about
"LimitRequestBody" @

   http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/ref-cupsd-conf.html

Cheers,
pipitas





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