Non-blocking Print Queues

Aukjan aukjan at vanbelkum.no.spam.nl
Fri Mar 23 00:30:06 PDT 2007


Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> Ka Lim wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am using cups 1.1.17 on Redhat and Fedora boxes, and have configured a number of print queues for different printers in my company's network.  However, I found that if one of the printers goes wrong (e.g. paper jam, go offline, network problem), all other print jobs would also be blocked in the cups spooler.  Is it possible to configure cups so that different print queues would be working independently?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>> Cups itself has no such feature in the 1.1.x branch,
> 
> Not entirely correct.
> 
> If *one* queue is (auto-)disable, this should not affect the other
> queues and should not block the complete server. Not even in CUPS
> 1.1.x.
> 
You are so right about this .. I should have read the original post 
better :-) .. I read that only all the print jobs in the specific queue 
would be blocked...

Thanks for noticing!

Aukjan





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