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

[Daniel Spannbauer]

Helge Blischke schrieb:
> Johannes Meixner wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> On May 7 11:06 Daniel Spannbauer wrote (shortened):
>>> Under /usr/lib/cups/notifier/ there are some Binary which seem to send
>>> the Mail. Is it posibly to write a own script for using by cups?
>> Yes.
>>
>> For experimenting I added right now in subscriptions.conf
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> <Subscription 19>
>> Events job-created job-completed job-stopped
>> Owner jsmeix
>> Recipient mynotifier:jsmeix at suse.de
>> LeaseDuration 0
>> Interval 30
>> ExpirationTime 0
>> NextEventId 3
>> </Subscription>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> and I added a new /usr/lib/cups/notifier/mynotifier
>> with "-rwxr-xr-x  root root" permissions
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> #! /bin/bash
>>
>> # get debugging info in /var/log/cups/error_log:
>> set -x
>>
>> cat /dev/null >/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> echo "argv[1]: '$1'" >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> echo "argv[2]: '$2'" >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> echo "argv[3]: '$3'" >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> echo "argv[4]: '$4'" >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> echo "argv[5]: '$5'" >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> echo "argv[6]: '$6'" >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>> set >>/tmp/mynotifier.out
>>
>> cat - >/tmp/mynotifier.stdin
>>
>> exit 0
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Unfortunately (at least not with my CUPS 1.3.9)
>> a notifier does not get the command line parameters
>> and environment variables like usual CUPS filters
>> (compare "man 7 filter") so that adding a real working
>> notifier as a bash script seems to be complicated.
>>
>> Instead a notifier gets the data in a special format via stdin
>> where I currently only find the print queue URI but I can
>> neither find the job owner nor the job id.
>>
>> I don't know a documentation where this format is described.
>> Perhaps you must view the sources in the notifier/ directory.
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Johannes Meixner
> 
> With CUPS 1.3.5, I experimentally used a Perl script as a notifier which in
> turn calls the testnotify utility (which gets built if you compile CUPS
> from the sources). Ths test utility proviedes a lot of information about
> the current event (like job attivutes etc.) and, of course, the reason
> for aborting.
> 

Hello Helge,

I have the testnotiy. Is there any documentation for it? How to use it?

Regards

Daniel



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