[K12OSN] Re: cups stopping printer

[Vern Ceder]

 > a printer without paper
 > should still accept print jobs until it's mem is full, so that when

Should, indeed...

Which is why it drove us nuts for a while. There is no indication 
anything is misconfigured, but it still happens. If there is a better 
fix, we sure couldn't find it (3 of us have tried), and we certainly 
would be glad to hear it....

Vern

Huck wrote:
> 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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Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
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