cupsd.conf option for never disable printers

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Feb 4 09:19:27 PST 2011


Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> Hi all-
> 
> I want to know if there is an option i can put into my cupsd.conf to by
> default never disable a printer on error.  I typically have several
> printers and import them from older servers that didnt use cups, therefore
> never disabled themselves.  I know there is an option for error-policy
> retry current job for each individual printer, but i was wondering if
> there is a way to set that as the default for all printers

For cups 1.3.x and higher, a default error policy can be specified in 
cupsd.conf, whereas the error policy for individual printers is specified 
within the printer specification in printers.conf.

Helge





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