Running external command before every job

[Neil Cherry]

> I want CUPS to run a certain (external) program every time a job is started or has finished. Is their any configuration directive that I can use for this?

Take a look at:

http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/cupsapps/
http://funderburgs.net/linux/x10printer/

The first link is the better of the 2 but it's a bit more complicated (if you can handle CUPS it may not be too bad). Fritz uses Perl and I think it's well writen.

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Neil Cherry