[cups] [cups.general] error policy - move job?

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Jun 16 08:15:06 PDT 2014


> >> 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?
> > 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.

A hold-job policy for when there is a an error would be very useful for
cases like this; we are facing the same thing.  We want the server to
continue on to the next job but retain the failed job.





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