[cups.general] lpstat doesn't show disabled when use the --hold option

[Michael Sweet]

This is an IPP think - the "--hold" option tells CUPS not to start printing any new jobs for the printer, but it doesn't actually change the printer state to "stopped" since, well, it hasn't been stopped, just new jobs held.

That said, we could probably display a different status in the lpstat output since we will see "hold-new-jobs" in the printer attributes - perhaps "paused" or "holding new jobs"?

Anyways, please file a bug if you'd like to see this behavior changed:

    http://www.cups.org/str.php

On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Sue Toeppler wrote:

> Running cups 1.4.6.  When I issue a 'cupsdisable -r"Reason" --hold printername', any spooled print requests wait in the queue as expected.  But when I do a 'lpstat -t', it doesn't show the printer as disabled and doesn't show the reason.
> lpstat -t results:
> printer lp05 is idle.  enabled since Thu 27 Jan 2011 04:17:07 PM CST
> 
> do a cupsdisable:
> cupsdisable -r"Down" --hold lp05
> 
> do another lpstat -t:
> printer lp05 is idle.  enabled since Thu 27 Jan 2011 04:17:07 PM CST
> 
> Doesn't show disabled or show the reason.
> 
> 
> 
> If I do 'cupsdisable -r"Reason" printername' and then a 'lpstat -t' it does show it as disabled and does show the reason.
> 
> cupsdisable -r"Down" lp05
> 
> do an lpstat -t:
> printer lp05 disabled since Thu 27 Jan 2011 04:20:00 PM CST -
>        Down
> 
> 
> 
> Is there any way to show it as disabled and show the reason when using the --hold option?
> 
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair