Problems with paused printers

[Daniel Tinkov]

>
> Hello,
>
> On Jan 28 00:35 Daniel Tinkov wrote (shortened):
> > Is there any way to tell CUPS to cancel the bad job
> > instead of pausing the printer?
> ....
> > ... SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1...
>
> For CUPS 1.1:
> If you know that it doesn't matter when you loose print jobs,
> we provide a backend wrapper "beh" (package cups-backends)
> which you can use to let jobs silently be dropped when
> they cannot be sent to the device, see
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/BackendErrorHandler
> Additionally see the /usr/lib[64]/cups/backend/beh perl script
> for your exact version how to set it up.
>
> But note that you may lose all jobs in the queue if there is
> an error condition which is not specific for one single job:
> Assume there are 10 jobs in the queue.
> Job 1 and 2 print fine.
> At job 3 an error condition happens which lets the
> backend fail so that job 3 becomes silently dropped.
> Then job 4 starts but if the error condition still exists,
> the backend fails again so that job 4 becomes also dropped.
> And so on until all jobs are silently lost.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
> AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
>
 10x very much I think this will be a fairly good resolution to my problem, because it really doesn't mater if all the jobs are canceled, so 10x again you really made my day!