[cups.general] how to disable a printer?

ekkard gerlach jack at aiai.de
Mon Dec 22 16:54:43 PST 2008


Michael R Sweet schrieb:
> 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".
> 
Yeahh! It works!
e.g  cupsdisable hp1022
Thanks a lot!

Ekkard




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