Web page 'Jobs' page shows only one job

John A. Murdie john at cs.york.ac.uk
Tue Feb 20 08:25:05 PST 2007


Mike Sweet wrote:
> You understand the situation correctly, and this *is* a feature and
> not a bug.  The primary motivation for this feature is that we don't
> want to lose jobs, so we wait for each job to complete before sending
> the next one to the queue.
>
> If you have a single server for a particular group of users, you can
> just add a client.conf file that points to that server, eliminating
> the local queue.  If you use a name with multiple IPs, you can even
> get a certain about of failover/load-balancing with the proper DNS
> configuration.
...
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com

Umm, an embarassingly simple fix. I'd seen the clients.conf documentation page before, but had always assumed that a client scheduler was necessary even when one didn't have local printers.

Many thanks Mike.

John A. Murdie




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