Restart PrintPro printers (CUPS) via command line

Matt matt.schutz at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 10:43:53 PST 2009


We're having a problem with some printers in PrintPro periodically stopping for no known reason.

I have seen the following to restart the printer:

/usr/bin/enable printername
/usr/sbin/lpr restart

As somewhat of a newbie to CUPS in general can anyone tell me the difference?

Really what I want to do is schedule something to find all stopped printers and restart them.  I don't want to stop/start printers that are already online.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

- Matt




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