cups: restart printer with scipt

Sean Crosby richardnixonshead at gmail.com
Tue May 3 19:48:20 UTC 2011


2011/5/4 Franz Waldmüller <waldbauernbub at gmx.at>

> 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.
>
>
You don't need a script. Just use the backend handler to make sure the
printer never gets stopped in the event of an error:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/backenderrorhandler

<http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/backenderrorhandler>
Sean
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