[cups.general] cups does not respect error policy

[Michael Sweet]

Filter errors are always treated differently - we just abort the job and move on.


On 2013-01-16, at 2:18 AM, Jan.Dreyer at bertelsmann.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> yast made no difference, but I found out sothing else:
> On errors when calling _backends_ the error policy is still respected, and also with errors running filters _from_ a backend.
> But when calling a pre-filter, the error policy does not work. Just the job itself gets stopped.
> 
> It's no showstopper for us; maybe we can modify the filter to disable the printerqueue from within (don't "exit 1" but "cups-disable"). Nevertheless this is not the behavior that is documented. The documentation does not difference between "normal" filters and prefilters.
> 
> Regards
> Jan Dreyer
> IT Administrator / Operations Team / M-IT OMS
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] Im Auftrag von Dreyer, Jan, M-IT OMS
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013 08:47
> An: cups at easysw.com
> Betreff: Re: [cups.general] cups does not respect error policy
> 
> Hi Johannes
> 
> Thanks for your explanations. Here the requested information:
> 
> ---
> # find /etc/cups | xargs grep -i ErrorPolicy
> /etc/cups/printers.conf.O:ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> /etc/cups/printers.conf.O:ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> /etc/cups/printers.conf.O:ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> /etc/cups/printers.conf:ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> /etc/cups/printers.conf:ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> /etc/cups/printers.conf:ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> ---
> 
> ---
> # grep -i '^DeviceURI' /etc/cups/printers.conf
> DeviceURI lpd://bd-p30254.mydomain.net/LPT1
> DeviceURI unc://localhost/
> DeviceURI socket://bd-p30254.mydomain.net
> ---
> 
> Of course I already studied the documentation. I didn't know about the "nutshell" document though.
> 
> I also didn't try yast for configuring the cup services. I will give it a try now, maybe SuSE has made some modifications that prevented my changes to load. Will keep this list informed.
> 
> Regards
> Jan Dreyer
> IT Administrator / Operations Team / M-IT OMS
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] Im Auftrag von Johannes Meixner
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013 16:00
> An: Mirror of cups.general Newsgroup
> Betreff: Re: [cups.general] cups does not respect error policy
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Jan 14 11:07 Jan.Dreyer at bertelsmann.de wrote (excerpt):
>> ... cups 1.3.9 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server default version) ...
>> After trying to set ErrorPolicy to "abort-job" (which worked)
>> we switched back to "stop-printer" (should be default).
>> But cups does not respect the new change in error policy.
>> Instead it now aborts each job, whatever value we tried to use.
> 
> I do not remember any such issue report from any user,
> therefore I assume it is no bug in CUPS.
> 
> What does
> # find /etc/cups | xargs grep -i ErrorPolicy
> result?
> 
> What does
> # grep -i '^DeviceURI' /etc/cups/printers.conf
> result?
> 
> The ErrorPolicy in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf specifies only the
> default ErrorPolicy when there is no ErrorPolicy setting
> in /etc/cups/printers.conf see
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/ref-cupsd-conf.html
> versus
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/ref-printers-conf.html
> 
> Regarding changing CUPS config files manually,
> see "Command-line Tools" at
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair