[cups.general] Feature Request: Job Timeout

[Michael Sweet]

Feature requests can be filed here:

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

STR #2811 talks a little about this but isn't a proposal for a general solution:

	http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2811

Long-term I would rather have an intelligent solution, i.e. if the driver or printer provided "media-needed" as a status then cupsd can a) notify the owner, operators, and administrators of the situation and b) do something (hold job, cancel job, etc.) if no response is received (or the condition is not resolved on the printer) within a defined amount of time.

On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:18 AM, Andreas Heinlein wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to request something which has already been asked for here in 2005: setting Job Timeouts. I.e. if a job stays uncompleted in the queue for whatever reason, cancel it and continue with the next one.
> 
> It happens quite frequently here that jobs sit in the queue for hours, sometimes even days. Mostly it is because of wrong paper size selected, where the printer sits there asking for paper size X. Finally, when someone else wants to print, he/she cannot because that job is blocking the queue.
> 
> I had to give everyone the right to cancel and purge jobs to cope with that, which is not an ideal solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair