[cups.general] enable printer after problem

[Patrick DUBAU]

Michael Sweet a écrit :

> 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.
>
Thanks for your answer Michael.

i don't have lot of  history from this mailling list (just new 
subscribe), won't you mind give me a help in how to create this cron job 
? Thanks