AutoPurge/MaxJobsPerPrinter on a single Queue

[Helge Blischke]

David Montminy wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there any way to define a different "MaxJobsPerPrinter" for each queue?
> 
> I'm trying to setup Cups to retain documents from certain queues and automatically purge documents from the others.
> 
> We have 2 "type" of queue on the print server:
> 1)From automated applications (Such as Pay Roll)
> 2)User-generated
> 
> These are different printers, but the jobs are generated on the same server (running as print server). The automated jobs have to be kept for at least a month.
> 
> I've tried a couple of combinations of the "MaxJobs", "AutoPurgeJobs", "MaxJobsPerPrinter" and Quotas but I cannot get the User-generated queues empty of old re-printable jobs. It simply keeps everything up to the limit  defined by "MaxJobs" or "MaxJobsPerPrinter".
> 
> Is there something I misunderstood?
> 
> David Montminy

Perhaps you may set up 2 CUPS instances which advertize their printers
to the other.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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