[cups.general] Spooler jobfile names in /var/spool/cups/

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Thu Feb 9 08:23:10 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:50:39AM -0500, Tom Callahan wrote:
> Does anyone know if you can change how CUPS names the jobfiles in
> /var/spool/cups? I need to preserve all Job files, and be able to backup
> and purge this directory. The problem is, once I purge, CUPS starts the
> numbering over again, so if I ever have to restore, it will overwrite
> the data currently in there..... I'd like to somehow have CUPS name
> those jobfiles with a date stamp in them....

You should use something like Tea4CUPS to do this. With it you'll do 
this in a minute. 

Another solution is to modify CUPS' source code...

bye

Jerome Alet





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