/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket failed

[Leon Stringer]

> After playing with the script for an hour, I realized it was just my typo.
> beh:/  not  beh://
>
> "DanMc" <cupsadmin at elgin.edu> wrote in message
> news:29094-cups.general at news.easysw.com...
> > I'm having the same problem on 1.1.23  If a printers is offline (powered
> > off, out of paper) cups eventually stops the queue because of the non-zero
> > error message from the backend.
> >
> > I searched around in the group archives, and found this has been the case
> > for a long time, and there's a nice fellow who wrote a perl script backend
> > wrapper.
> >
> > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/BackendErrorHandler

Thanks Dan, that does look like the exact problem so I'll try that fix.

CUPS developers: I never had this problem with 1.1.19. Was this a deliberate design choice? As the URL above mentions, it's a bit frustrating in an otherwise slick environment.