[cups.general] notifications when printers disabled

[Michael Sweet]

Steve Feehan wrote:
> Hi. We have a flaky printer that occasionally automatically gets 
> set as disabled when it is malfunctioning. This is great, but is
> there a way to get a notification when this occurs? Preferably via
> mail, but syslog would be OK too.

Not at present, however 1.2 adds support for this kind of
notification.  In the meantime, you can write a quick cron script
that checks for disabled printers via lpstat -p.

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