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

[Thomas Degenhardt]

Bill Carlson schrieb:
> 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.
> 

Bill,

we have included the CUPS-webinterface in our web-pages and are quite 
pleased with it except for the number of jobs being displayed. We update 
the Pages every 15 secs. Unfortunately i'm not familiar with Perl. Do 
you have a sample Perlscript?

Regards,
Thomas