[cups.general] Mail to User if a Printjob is abortet

[Daniel Spannbauer]

Helge Blischke schrieb:
> Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> 
>>
>> Johannes Meixner schrieb:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On May 6 08:05 Daniel Spannbauer wrote (shortened):
>>>> is cups able to send a Mail to a user when his printjob
>>>> was abortet due to an error?
>>> Have a look at
>>> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/ref-subscriptions-conf.html
>>> and
>>> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/ref-mailto-conf.html
>>> if you run CUPS 1.3 or see
>>> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php?VERSION=1.2
>>> if you run CUPS 1.2
>>>
>>> To see an example in /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf run
>>> root at host# cupsdisable queue_name
>>> user at host$ echo Hello | lp -d queue_name -m
>>> root at host# cat /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf
>>> root at host# cupsenable queue_name
>>>
>>> If it does not work have a look at /var/log/cups/error_log
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way:
>>> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/ref-subscriptions-conf.html
>>> reads:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> you should normally use the command-line programs (lp(1) and lpr(1))
>>> ... to manage your subscriptions.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> but "man lp" and
>>> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/man-lp.html
>>> do not show anything how to "manage subscriptions"
>>> except the plain "-m" parameter.
>> Hello Johannes,
>>
>> thanks for the answer, seems to be interessting. But this seems only to
>> work if I give the "-m"-Option. And the subsrictions.conf seems to be
>> generated automaticly thru the "-m"-Switch. So, if I make changes in
>> that file.... is cups overwriting it?
>> An how can I make that work in that way that not every printjob has to
>> be started with -m?
>>
>> It would be nice if it would be adjustable that cups only sends mail to
>> the owner of the job (which could be resolved by cups) when the job is
>> aborted.
>> Do I have to write a subscription for every user that wants to have a
>> mail-notification?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>> Johannes Meixner
> 
> See the subscriptions.conf document via the CUPS web interface.
> You should configure all events that signal an aborted job (for whatever
> reason) and configure the mailto notifier for these events.
> 
Hmmm, it seems that my cups is too old, I found nothing about 
subscriptions.conf in the webinterface. I use Cups 1.2.7 from SuSE 10.2

Regards

Daniel




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