[cups.general] how to disable a printer?

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Dec 22 16:25:08 PST 2008


ekkard gerlach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can I disable a printer if "disable" is not present (e.g. Suse 
> 10.2)? - I urgently need it because a script has to enable all printers 
> every minute (cron driven) by using lpstat -p | grep <text>  and the 
> text is language specific. So I need to disable a printer to see which 
> text is put out from lpstat -p  if a printer is disabled,

Try "cupsdisable".

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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