[cups.general] Changig th number of displayed jobs in th web interface

[Bill Carlson]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:14:36AM -0400, Thomas Degenhardt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using CUPS 1.2.2 on a SUSE 9.2-box.It works quite well, but we 
> have a little problem with the web interface. We are using CUPS in a 
> student environment and ther are often a lot of jobs in a queue. We 
> would like to inform our students about the status of their printjobs so 
> we installed a PC (without mouse and keyboard)near to the printer which 
> displays the currently spooled printjobs in a loop. But unfortunately 
> there are only 10 entries per page displayed. How can this setting be 
> changed? We need all the jobs displayed on one page.
> Any help would be appreciated.

How often do you want it to refresh? If say every 2 minutes, write a small
perl script to dump the current printer states from lpstat and friends in
HTML to the CUPS document root and run from cron.

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