Printers disabling

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Tim <tryan at nc.rr.com> wrote (Friday 28 July 2006 00:59):

>> If it is 1.2.x, you can use
>>
>>   /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printername -o printer-error-policy=retry-job
>>
>> More gory details are on
>>
>>   http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-printers-conf.html#ErrorPolicy
>>   http://localhost:631/help/ref-printers-conf.html?TOPIC=References&QUERY=#ErrorPolicy
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kurt
> 
> Thank you, that should do what I want. I'll try it first thing in 
> the morning. Is there any way to set it for all the printers? 

  for printer in $(lpstat -p | grep ^printer | awk '{print $2}'); do
     /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p ${printer} -o printer-error-policy=retry-job \
     && echo "\"retry-job\" is now the ErrorPolicy for printer ${printer}"
  done