[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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