[cups.general] Contant printer timeouts disabling printers

Ryan Suarez ryan.suarez at sheridanc.on.ca
Mon Oct 23 08:43:50 PDT 2006


>Does anyone know what may be causing this?  Or anyway to make the timeout longer?  Or some way to get CUPS to just retry again a few minutes later and not disable the printer?
>
Usually a problem with the printer.  I have a cron to periodically check for disabled/rejecting queues and stuck jobs.


The cron checks if:
- we can ping the printer
- we can connect to the port the backend uses
- if the printer is accepting jobs (snmpget for 
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrPrinterStatus.1)

You can also grab the printer display using snmpwalk 
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