[cups.general] automatic restart?

[Helge Blischke]

Peter Kobe wrote:
> 
> An installed printer can reach  a "stopped" situation.
> a) on purpose. Just stop that beast.
> b) accidently (unreachable for example because of a
>    fault in the nameserver or if the net-cable is broken)
>    This state is reached if a print command
>    points to this printer and cups can't reach that address
> 
>   Is there a hook in the configuration, which restarts the printer after the
>    fault-reson has been corrected, i.e. keep on trying in intervals if the
> "on purpose button" has not been set.
> ?
> 
> 
Currently no, AFAIK; but I've heared rumors that CUPS 1.2 will offer
a feature like this.

With current CUPS, I'd suggest either to check the printer's state
by a cron script (using lpstat or the CUPS API, whatever you like more),
or restart the printer on SMTP events, if the printer supports SMTP.

Helge


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