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

[david]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:05 -0500, Matt Hull wrote:
> 
> 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,
> > >
> > > 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 ?
> > >
> > > --=20
> > > Bye,
> > >      Peer
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It should be possible to use tea4cups to do something like this. It cost
me $9.99 but made it possible for me to send my print jobs to a script.
It can also check the status of print jobs and alert you if it fails.

In theory you can download it for free, but I was not successful with
the svn checkout.