lpstat - eventualy report incorrect status

[Michael Sweet]

angelb wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has already been reported but I noticed lpstat
> will eventualy report incorrect status of a printer que currently in
> rejecting jobs.
> 
> This can be duplicated in the servers.
> 
> First, confirm the printer queue is currently enabled and accepting
> print jobs.
> 
> Now, from the web inteface, stop the que and then confirm the status
> on the command line by lpstat:
> 
> [root at stlam506 bin]# lpstat -pabq
> printer abq disabled since Thu 26 Apr 2007 03:38:45 PM CDT -
>    Paused
> 
> Now, from the web interface, set the que to reject jobs then confrim
> the status on the command line:
> 
> printer abq disabled since Thu 26 Apr 2007 03:38:45 PM CDT -
>    Rejecting Jobs
> 
> At this point, you have a printer queue that is both stopped and
> rejecting jobs.
> 
> Now, at the web interface, restart the printer queue(leave reject
> for now), and confirm status:
> 
> [root at stlam506 bin]# lpstat -pabq
> printer abq is idle.  enabled since Thu 26 Apr 2007 03:40:04 PM CDT
> 
> If you noticed, while the printer que is actively rejecting print
> jobs, the "Rejecting Jobs" is no longer displayed.
> 
> I have a script that runs every 10-minutes that restarts print queues.
> This worked well in CUPS 1.1, but with reject option in CUPS 1.2, I
> needed to adjust my script. But at the moment, there's no simple way of
> telling from the command line a printer que is currently set to reject
> print jobs.
> 
> If you start with both start and accepting jobs on a printer queue and
> then just set the que to "Reject Jobs", you'll get the following
> status:
> 
> [root at stlam506 bin]# lpstat -pabq
> printer abq is idle.  enabled since Thu 26 Apr 2007 03:40:04 PM CDT
>    Rejecting Jobs
> 
> It would be nice if the first-line messages says the following
> instead:
> 
> printer abq is rejecting jobs.
> 
> This can be usefull specially when CUPS automatically sets a printer
> queu into stop and reject mode when it cannot communicate with it.

We can't change the output format of lpstat without breaking existing
apps that parse the output...

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