Creating a new backend.

pipitas pipitas at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 12:43:00 PST 2010


On 12/02/2010 09:40 PM, pipitas wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 05:14 PM, Roger Wolff wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem that CUPS might solve....
>>
>> I have 4 DVD burners, and I'd like to use a queuing program to handle
>> the queuing and job-distribution..... I thought I'd make a web-interface
>> like CUPS has, but then it hit me: Why not use CUPS itself?
>>
>> So: Will CUPS handle 4G+ queue files? And: how do I tell cups to use my
>> bash-script for the backend?
>
>
> Have a look at these example and testing backends, called "2file" and
> "dir", written in Bash:
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDEPrint/Tools%2BUtilities#.272dir.27_CUPS_backend_script_.28Bash_code.29
>
> As for the 4G+ file size: look at the documentation about
> "LimitRequestBody" @
>
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/ref-cupsd-conf.html

Sorry for the multiple postings having arrived @ the newsgroup.
Thunderbird gave me error messages 3 times, but it seems that every
one of these was sent out nevertheless...




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