AutoPurge/MaxJobsPerPrinter on a single Queue
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Oct 11 06:20:03 PDT 2007
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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