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

[John Rowan]

Michael R Sweet wrote:
> 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)
>
>   
Results from lpstat -v:

device for report: lpd://netgearps2/p2


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