[cups.general] Re: start prnting after a printer is turned on?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 30 October 2004 14:59, SA wrote:
>Is this either such a stupid question that no one has bothered to
> answer it or is it really possible that no one knows a solution?
>
I don't think that can be done automaticly without some creative 
script writing.

You would have to do the equivalent of firing up the browser, send it 
to localhost:631, click on printers, and start the printer you just 
turned on.

Possibly its something that could be tied to a hotplug event?

>SA wrote:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>> start prnting after a printer is turned on?
>>
>>
>> How do I start printing automatically after a printer has been
>> turned on?
>>
>>
>> The problem is that if my printer is turned on after my linux box
>> printer server has booted then cups doesn't automatically start
>> printing. CUPS just continues to queue jobs.  I don't want to let
>> users configure CUPS (ie start the printer manually), is there a
>> way to get CUPS to start printing once the printer is turned on
>> automatically?
>>
>>
>> I am running FC2 and a laserjet 1300 on a USB port with
>> cups-1.1.20-11.4.
>>
>> Also my printer crashes most times if it is switched on at boot
>> time.  It never did this under lpd and has only done this since
>> installing CUPS. At boot the computer hangs for around 30s when
>> CUPS starts then prints the message usb 2-2: control timeout on
>> ep0in and the printer crashes.
>>
>>
>> Any clues as to how to fix any of these problems?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> SA
>>
>>
>> My previous post seemd to be deleted - hence this repost.
>
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