[cups.general] Feature Request - Never stop printers

Steve Bergman steve at rueb.com
Sat Mar 19 19:23:59 PST 2005


John E.Vincent wrote:

>There have been quite a few posts where people are having issues with printers disabling themselves because of things like socket timeouts or out of paper and what not.
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>Helge has made the recommendation that you could modify the backend you use to always return 0 no matter what. Some of us have written scripts that check every so often and enable any disabled printers.
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>Mike,
>Is it possible we could get a config option that handles this for us? Something along the lines of a NeverStop or NeverDisable?
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Here! Here!  This should be a configurable option.  In fact, I believe 
NeverDisable should be the default.





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