Backend Socket Failed Errors

[Michael Sweet]

Lucky Leavell wrote:
> ...
> I edited the /etc/cups/printers.conf file to change
> 
>    ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> 
> to
> 
>    ErrorPolicy retry-job
> 
> and inclreased the JobRetryInterval and JobRetryLimit in the cupsd.conf but the ErrorPolicy in the printers.conf file keeps getting reset back to stop-printer. Is there somewhere else I need to set this to make it persistent?

You can't edit the printers.conf file directly when cupsd is running.

Use lpadmin (or the web interface) instead:

     lpadmin -p printer -o printer-error-policy=retry-job

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com