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

[Matt Hull]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Anonymous wrote:

> Create a Bash script that does this.
> ----------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> qcheck_number=`lpq.cups -a | wc -l`
>
> if [ "$qcheck_number" -ge 5 ]
>   then
>         lpq.cups -a | mail -s "Printer Issue Detected @ http://servername:631" username at domain.com
>   else
>         exit
> fi
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Run it from crontab like every 5 minutes.
>
> Works good for figuring out if you have a broken queue, the jobs will pile up in the queue and you will get a notification about that.

is there a way to have cups notify?  using a cron every five minutes to
poll seems inefficient

matt

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> > Hi,
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> > 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 ?
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