[cups.general] enable printer after problem

[Michael Sweet]

Patrick DUBAU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have CUPS  1.1.23-10 with following problem.
> 
> When a printer has a problem, for example traffic jam, the printer in 
> CUPS comes in a "disable state" and i have to go into cups to restart 
> the printer.
> This is very enoying when our students have this problem and nobody is 
> here to restart the printer.
> Is there a way for CUPS not to disable the printer whatever the problem 
> is on the printer so that as soon as the problem is solved printing is 
> possible again without restarting the printer ?

Not with CUPS 1.1.x, however you can setup a cron job to automatically
enable stopped printers (see the many posts on this subject for
examples...)

CUPS 1.2 adds a per-printer error policy that allows for other
behavior, including retrying again in 5 minutes if a printer goes
down.

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