cups: restart printer with scipt

Franz Waldmüller waldbauernbub at gmx.at
Tue May 3 19:33:36 UTC 2011


Hi,

sometimes when paper gets scrambled in a printer the printer is 
"stopped" by cups. To continue printing you have to go to 
http://localhost:631 (the cups web interface), go "manage" printers, 
select the printer which is stopped and restart the printer. You will 
need the user name and a password of a users who is in the lpadmin group 
to perform this task.

This is quite difficult to remember for my parents, that is why I am 
looking for a script to restart the printer after it has been stopped.
executing
/usr/bin/enable PRINTER_NAME
as found on http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#4_3_4 does not work.


Thanks for your advice
Franz




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