error policy - move job?

Rob Crow r.crow at mdx.ac.uk
Thu Nov 8 13:13:04 PST 2012


Thanks

Sorry for my basic knowledge but could you point me in the right direction to set up notification handling? I've read some of the docs but where does this go? and how does notification trigger a script?

thanks
Rob.

> Rob Crow wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to get CUPS to move all error/aborted jobs to another
> > queue? Or to save the aborted jobs in a given location?
> >
> > Using the 'abort-job' error policy works best for us in keeping the
> > printers running, but we need to review and possibly re-print the
> > erroneous jobs.
> >
> > Perhaps there is another way to trap problem jobs without stopping the
> > queue?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rob.
>
> Not directly, AFAIK, but you set up a notification handling for the aborted
> jobs and hook this up to a utility script that  e.g. moves the job.
>
> Helge
>





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