cups-lpd can lose print data

Sebastian James sjames at wmltd.co.uk
Fri Jan 30 09:25:43 PST 2009


> Sebastian James wrote:
> > ..
> > Would a patch to add a new query CUPS_GET_MAXJOBS to cups be likely
> > to be accepted subject to the code being of acceptable quality?
>  > ...
>
> No, since a) you can add more disk space and/or increase the MaxJobs
> parameter to suite your site and b) if cups-lpd or cupsd are unable
> to queue the job, cups-lpd returns an error to the client doing the
> printing.
> If b) is not working, then we need to address it, however we aren't
> going to add code to cups-lpd to do cupsd's job.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com

I will test b) and come back to you. I suspect it doesn't work in the older 1.1.23 code.

Seb




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