[cups.general] Disabling autodisabling of printers

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jan 30 17:51 Jan Engelhardt wrote (shortened):
> Is it possible to configure the queue so that it does not automatically 
> go to 'disabled' state just because the printer is not online?

If you use CUPS 1.2 there is the so called "error policy" to define
what the cupsd should do for a particular queue if its associated
backend exits with exit code 1 (CUPS_BACKEND_FAILED),
see the CUPS documentation
http://localhost:631/help/ref-printers-conf.html
and
http://localhost:631/help/man-backend.html

If you use CUPS 1.1 try the "beh" backend, see
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/BackendErrorHandler

In Suse Linux (since version 10.1) and openSUSE 10.2
the "beh" backend is in the cups-backends RPM package.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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