[cups] Job status in the log

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Oct 24 17:29:11 PDT 2014


Alex,

This would make a fine request if posted here:

    http://www.cups.org/str.php

It may also be addressed by STR #4474 (pile on there if you like).

> On Oct 24, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> It is more like a feature request. Currently CUPS reports every printed
> page to the PageLog, and every failed job to ErrorLog with all the details.
> This setup makes it quite hard to gather statistics of how many jobs were
> printed successfully, and what is the percentage of failed ones across
> multiple print-servers.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice if a summary of every job was added to ErrorLog
> regardless of whether it was successful or failed? Just one line, and only
> of LogLevel is at info, because it is a useful info.
> 
> The status line format can be similar to PageLog one:
> printer-name username #id date/time total-pages total-size ip-address
> job-title job-result last-message-if-failed
> 
> job-result: completed, cancelled, purged, etc.
> last-message-if-failed -- "Filter failed", "The printer is not
> responding.", ...
> 
> -- 
> -Alex
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair




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