Notification when a print job is not printed

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Mon Oct 10 05:31:58 PDT 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > Not at present, however CUPS 1.2 adds support for notifications (the
> > email notifier is not yet in the public repo, soon though!)
> 
> I am curious...
> 
> When a Windows user prints to a CUPS server, and the job fails, how does CUPS obtain the email address of the Windows user?
> 
> > Matt Hull wrote:
> > > ...
> > > is there a way to have cups notify?  using a cron every five minutes to
> > > poll seems inefficient
> >
> > Not at present, however CUPS 1.2 adds support for notifications (the
> > email notifier is not yet in the public repo, soon though!)
> >
> > Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> > Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com

I think SAMBA does it in this case.

Helge

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