AutoPurge/MaxJobsPerPrinter on a single Queue

David Montminy david.montminy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 06:27:56 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
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org

I wish I could. This is a Legacy system with 2000+ COBOL applications, so any major change to the printer queues might break something...

I can change the back-end, but the way the applications interface with the system (including queue names) must stay the same...

David Montminy




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