[cups.general] How to stop CUPS from restarting jobs with errors

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Jan 31 11:27:05 PST 2008


John Rowan wrote:
> I have been having problems where running reports overnight one or more 
> of the jobs will encounter a problem which causes CUPS to restart the 
> job from the beginning.  Last night the one report requeued 32 times 
> before exhausting the paper in the box.  I looked through 
> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and don't see anything I can change to have CUPS 
> not restart a job that had an error.  This is an older Red Hat 9 server 
> scheduled to be upgraded later this year.  There is a proprietary 
> application on the server that required RH9 which recently had an update 
> so I can move to a newer distribution / release.  Until that upgrade is 
> put in place I have to get the older server to handle errors more 
> gracefully.  The version of CUPS is cups-1.1.17-13

That standard 1.1.17 release didn't retry like this.  What backend are
you using for the queue? ("lpstat -v" will show)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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