[cups.general] Event Monitoring/Triggers

[Michael Sweet]

Adam,

On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Is there any support in CUPS for monitoring events?  Such as when a
> printer enters a "Paused" state [queue stops]?  I've looked through the
> documentation and haven't found much and keywords searches have been
> equally fruitless.


CUPS supports the IPP Notifications extension, so you can write a (short) program that subscribes to printer-state-change events; see the "testsub" program in the CUPS sources (scheduler/testsub.c) for inspiration...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair