On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Dave <tdbtdb+centos at 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 at 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 at 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