Re: Need help with CUPS printing
Quoting Gene Heskett (gheskett@wdtv.com):
> On Monday 30 March 2015 05:59:40 Brian wrote:
> > On Sun 29 Mar 2015 at 18:48:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Sunday 29 March 2015 12:58:11 Brian wrote:
> > > > These directives should be in /etc/cups/cups-files.
> > >
> > > I was just making sure I could kill a job gone wild without having
> > > to become root on a rootless system to do it. My color laser would
> > > have wasted 40 sheets of paper while I was gaining access rights.
> >
> > Membership of the lpadmin group is sufficient to give administration
> > rights to a user. Having him in the root group is very questionable.
> > There is also the 'cancel' button on the printer.
>
> Here, its X-Cancel.
>
> And, tell that to cups, or if installed, on BEH, which sees it as a
> failure & restarts the job, wasting another 40 sheets of paper & toner
> by the time you get it stopped by nuking the cups stuff in /var/cups
> or /var/tmp, or maybe /tmp, depending on the mood the installer was in
> for that version at the time. You have to go find it, then get rights
> enough to nuke it. Thats at least 2 minutes, while a 19 ppm printer is
> churning out paper.
What ErrorPolicy do you have set in /etc/cups/printers.conf, and have
you tried ErrorPolicy abort-job.
Now I know that you like testing your printers with real 80 page jobs,
but have you thought of putting a stack of discarded output into the
feed hopper (to conserve paper) and printing jobs that have a single
character on each page (to conserve ink/toner) so you can test the
printers reaction to Cancel while you play with the settings.
> However, I cannot recall if changes to group are instant or need a reboot
> to fully effect them.
Neither. Just log in.
> > dnssd is Bonjour (Avahi on Linux).
> And that is what function? And can it be removed without eviscerating
> the rest of the system?
>From this thread, and several previous ones, eg "So much for a wheezy
install, massive fail", "Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0",
I can't see how anyone would be unwise enough to copy your
configuration (or even base theirs upon yours) as posted in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/03/msg01151.html
even if it comes with a "Just Works(TM)" sticker. Sorry, make that a
"Just Works(TM) until the next bare metal install, which starts the 3
ring circus of getting networking to actually work again..." sticker.
Cheers,
David.
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