failed printer not disabled when printing to class

Michael R Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Nov 24 14:03:51 PST 2005


a42n8k9 at dejazzd.com wrote:
> ...
> In doing this I discovered that it is by design that failed printers are not disabled when printing to a class or an implicit class.
> 
> I'm curious as to why this was designed this way.

Because when printing to a class, the backend will not retry and instead
returns a non-zero exit status.  Without this, backends will keep
retrying without forwarding the job to the next printer in the class.

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