On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Paul Johnson pauljohn32@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Dave tdbtdb+centos@gmail.com wrote:
Would it (should it) eventually notice that the server is back and re-enable itself just as automatically as it disabled itself? Dave
I found several people who offer cron scripts to do exactly that! It is amazing what you find after you learn the correct thing to Google for! Here, the magic words are "lpstat" and "enabled"
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-2824
"How do I start (enable) printer queues from a cron job in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?"
Handy, only it invokes 'enable' which does not exist on my system. Probably the centos equivalent is cupsenable?
[root@cod ~]# rpm -qs cups|grep enable normal /usr/sbin/cupsenable normal /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/man-cupsenable.html normal /usr/share/man/man8/cupsenable.8.gz [root@cod ~]# man cupsenable|cat - cupsenable(8) Apple Inc. cupsenable(8)
NAME cupsdisable, cupsenable - stop/start printers and classes
SYNOPSIS cupsdisable [ -E ] [-U username ] [ -c ] [ -h server[:port] ] [ -r rea- son ] destination(s) cupsenable [ -E ] [-U username ] [ -c ] [ -h server[:port] ] destina- tion(s)
DESCRIPTION cupsenable starts the named printers or classes.
cupsdisable stops the named printers or classes. The following options may be used:
I'll test it out next time I have this problem.
mahalo, Dave