[K12OSN] Re: cups stopping printer

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Wed Jan 11 00:41:17 UTC 2006


while this takes resolves the issue..it doesn't solve the problem...the 
printer stops for seemingly no reason at all...a printer without paper 
should still accept print jobs until it's mem is full, so that when the 
little dude who figures out to put paper in, his print jobs spews forth ;)

Vern Ceder wrote:
> We've used this strategy for quite a while. While I believe enabling an 
> already started printer is fine, I actually wrote a script to find the 
> disabled ones and enable only those.
> 
> Here's my "cupstickle" script which we run every 5 mimutes in a cron job:
> -----------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/enable `/usr/bin/lpstat -p | /bin/grep disabled | /usr/bin/cut 
>  -f 2 -d " "`
> -----------------------------------------
> (the last two lines above should really be on the same line, there is 
> only one line after the #!/bin/bash)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Vern
> 
> RiE wrote:
> 
>> On 1/10/06, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anything wrong with putting this in the crontab?  :
>>>
>>>
>>> 0-59/10  * * * * /usr/bin/enable [printer1] [printer2] .....
>>>
>>
>> what if you run enable on a printer that is already started?  will
>> that be a problem?
>>
>> For the minute, you could just do */10
>>
>> -- 
>> roger
>>
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