Non-blocking Print Queues

Aukjan aukjan at vanbelkum.no.spam.nl
Fri Mar 23 01:20:28 PDT 2007


Ka Lim wrote:
> Dear Aukjan,
> 
> Thanks for your information about BEH.  However, for the current
> configuration of my CUPS, it is possible that once the problem(s) of
> the queue is cleared (e.g. remove papar jam, add paper back to tray,
> or resolve network connection problem), the jobs queued in the server
> would be automatically sent back to the printer without user/admin
> intervention.  But it seems that BEH is just for tackling the above
> problem.  Or am I wrong about the perception of BEH?

BEH is specifically written to prevent the queue from disabling itself 
in case of error. It does some other things, but this is its foremost 
purpose. So you are correct!


> Anyway, thanks for your kind information ^_^

NP

Grts. Aukjan

> 
>> 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, but this is 
>> available in the 1.2.x branch... There is a way to do this in
>> 1.1.x, by adding the 'beh' backend error handler.
>> 
>> You can find more about this at: 
>> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/BackendErrorHandler
>> 
>> 
>> Good luck!
>> 
>> Aukjan
> 




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