[cups.general] Notification when a print job is not printed

[Helge Blischke]

Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is it somehow possible to get a mail or something else, if a
> print job is not printed within a certain time (say 90min).
> We have sometimes trouble with some pdf-files or 1-2 printers.
> In the moment I check it manually.
> Is there a better way to do it ?
> 

CUPS 1.1.x does not support notifications of any kind, but you may
implement workarounds by wrapping the respective backend
into a script (shell, Perl, Python, whatever you like) which in turn
calls the original backend and e.g. does some alarm handling and
make a notification if needed (by e-mail or SNMP or whatever
you like).

For some backends you may need to do a hack, as they get the 
device URI from argv[0] which cannot be easily simulated in most
scripting languages.

Helge


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