[cups.general] Printer stop

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizononline.net
Thu Aug 24 03:57:35 PDT 2006


On Thursday 24 August 2006 06:33, Christoff van Zyl wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I was wondering if somebody can give me some inputs regarding a problem I
> have with cups.
>
>The problem:
>We have about 30 printers in our wan setup over the country. If somebody
>switch off there machine at 5 and somebody wants to print to the printer
> the queue will try resending the job every 30 seconds.
>"Unable to connect to printer; will retry in 30 seconds...: Connection
> timed out"
>
>Now the problem is that the printer stop completely,
>"Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs",
>and we need to go to the webinterface on port 631 delete all the jobs and
>start the printer again.
>
>My question:
>Is there a option in cups that will delete jobs say older than 5 minutes
> and don't stop the printer completely. Or even start all printers that
> is stopped.
>
>I hope there is somebody out there that can help with this problem.
>
>Thanks
>Christoff

What I'd do is install beh, the Backend Error Handler.  If a printer goes 
offline, out of paper, what have you, the job is held until the printer 
becomes usable again.  I do not believe that other printers on your wan 
will be impeded.  Its a very usefull script in that no jobs are missed 
because the printer is out of service, they'll simply be printed when the 
printer is back on line.
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