[cups] Setting to keep jobs forever until printed?

[Michael Sweet]

Nick,

The setting you are looking for is "MaxJobTime", which first showed up in CUPS 1.6 and defaults to 3 hours:

    http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-cupsd-conf.html#MaxJobTime


On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Nick Rahl <nrahl at aquagear.com> wrote:

> After migrating to a new new server running a new CUPS (1.7) it appears that some (but not all) jobs are being discarded when the printer is off.
> 
> We've been unable to figure out a pattern to which jobs are dropped, but have determined that dropping only occurs when the printer is off.
> 
> It is a network printer with a socket:// URL.
> 
> I read through the manual and it seems there are retry policies, maximum jobs, maximum memory, and several other settings, but I can't tell from watching the logs which one is causeing jobs to drop, and many of the settings aren't in the config file at all, so I assume the default is being used. I don't want to try setting a bunch of settings without knowing which is the right one to change.
> 
> What are the approriate settings to keep all jobs forever, until printed, so that jobs simply wait as long as they need to for the printer to be powered up again?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair