Setting printer status from STOPPED to IDLE

[Michael Sweet]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> Bawenang wrote:
>>> Hi, I've read in the development forum:
>>>
>>> QUOTE from http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s933+gcups.development+v941+T1:
>>> "The standard CUPS backends only use this exit code for absolutely fatal conditions such as bad URIs and other errors that require the administrator/user to manually fix the problem."
>>>
>>> So if my application runs into this error and the admin has fixed the problem manually, how do I set the status to IDLE again from STOPPED in my application? My plan is I'll just make a button that can be clicked by the admin to clear the jobs queue and set the status to IDLE. I know that to clear the queue I'll just call cupsCancelJob(). But how to set the printer status? I believe there's a function called SetPrinterState() in printers.h. Do I have to call that function? If I do, what are the parameters? I can't find the explanation anywhere.
>>>
>>> Sorry if the questions are rather stupid. I'm still a beginner in
>>> programming with CUPS.
>>>
>>> Thanks alot in advance.
>> In the web interface, hit the "start printer" button, or, on the
>> command line, type
>> 	enable your_printer_s_name
> 
> A simple "enable" without an absolute path usually will not work on
> Linux (because "enable" is also a builtin Bash function). Try instead
> 
>   /usr/bin/enable your_printer_name
> 
> Recently, CUPS started to use "cupsenable" instead of the previous
> "enable" (dunno which version exactly) because of the conflict with
> the Bash builtin.

That change occurred with CUPS 1.2.

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