eggcups

[David G. Miller]

Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 01:11 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> > I am trying to get some kind of printer job control for users up and running.
>> > After much googling I think that what I want is eggcups, which is already
>> > installed as part of the desktop-printing rpm.
>>     
>
> Yes, it is.
>
>   
>> > Is this what I want to use for users to view pending print jobs and cancel
>> > them if they want to, and so on?  If so, how do I get it going?  I see that I
>> > already have eggcups processes running but I don't see any visible indication
>> > that they actually do anything at the moment.
>>     
>
> When you print something you'll see a small printer icon in the
> notification area, and you can get a job management tool by clicking on
> that.
>
> Tim.
Although it works fine for the most part, it crashes every few days on 
my FC6 system (printer on a CentOS 4.4 or 5 system, ipp shared).  I 
finally got tired of the crash box and just kill it through cron every 
night. 

The weird thing about the crashes is that I rarely actually print 
anything.  With or without activity, eggcups barfs every several days.  
This probably won't be a problem if your users shutdown everyday but 
it's annoying if you leave the system up all the time.

Cheers,
Dave

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