[cups.general] LPR print queues become disabled after printer goes offline

[Jerome Alet]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:47:25AM +0530, Komal Shah wrote:
> We have 5 Okidata 395 parallel printers connected to the server using 
> LinkPro PS-150A print servers. They are configured as remote LPR print 
> queues in Linux. Printing works fine most of the time except that the 
> print queues keep becoming disabled. We think this may occur when the 
> printer goes offline, such as with a paper out condition. However, we 
> are forced to cycle power on the printer, print server and to enable the 
> queue before printing can resume. Can the spooler be configured to 
> simply retry after an interval instead of disabling the queue? What 
> other changes can we make to fix this problem?

You either have to install beh from www.linuxprinting.org/beh.html
or upgrade to CUPS v1.2 which includes some retry feature.

beh is still more complete though I believe.

bye

Jerome Alet