[cups.general] holding print jobs in CUPS

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Mar 1, at 3:39, Eliraz wrote:
> So my question is how can I tell the CUPS to delay all my jobs for a  
> few seconds before it execute them and transfer them to thr  
> printer's buffer...?


   #! /bin/sh
   sleep 5
   exec /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket ${1+"$@"}

(assumes you're using the socket backend for the printer, and change  
directory path as appropriate for your CUPS install)

Drop the above script into /usr/lib/cups/backend (or wherever, as  
above) as "delaysocket" (or whichever backend) and reconfigure the  
CUPS queue to use "delaysocket" as the backend.

You could also install Tea4CUPS and use that to insert a delay.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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