[CUPS] Re: CUPS - placing all jobs on hold

[Till Kamppeter]

Bashir, Anwar wrote:
> Till, 
> 
> Many thanks for this.
> 
> I am using Mandake 9.0 and have looked at KDE Printing Manager. This
> provides a list of printers and four tabs; Information, Jobs, Properties and
> Instances. None of the options appear to provide the ability to select
> holding of jobs.

you can only find the option for holding jobs in "kprinter", not in the 
Printig Manager. Run kprinter as root and save your option settings to 
set a default behaviour for job holding.

Michael, would it not be better to have access to the job holding (and 
other options of kprinter's "Advanced Options" tab also in the 
"Settings" dialog of the "Instances" tab of the Print Manager?

> 
> I have used the command line option as you have suggested: lpoptions -p
> <printername> -o job-hold-until=indefinite.
> 
> I am testing as root and I have checked the /etc/cups/lpoptions file and
> found the following entries:
> 
> Default HP890c
> Dest Laserjet6 job-hold-until=indefinite
> 
> If I then use the CUPS web admin tool at localhost:631, and submit a test
> print from the page I had hoped to find that it is shown on the jobs page
> with the release option highlighted. I would then be able to release the
> job.
> 
> However, the job simply prints as before. 
> 

It seems that the test page facility of the web interface does not obey 
the /etc/cups/lpoptions. Can you try to print from the command line or 
out of an application?

    Till


> Do you have any idea what I might have done wrong.
> 
> Thanks again
> Anwar
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter@gmx.net]
> Sent: 01 November 2002 21:18
> To: Bashir, Anwar
> Subject: Re: [CUPS] Re: CUPS - placing all jobs on hold
> 
> 
> Here is an answer from the CUPS mailing list.
> 
>     Till
> 
> 
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
>>Till Kamppeter wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>If you have Mandrake 9.0 (perhaps 8.2 is already enough) you should have
>>>a look at the KDE Printing Manager (KDE Control Center, section "System"
>>>or "Peripherals") and the graphical replacement for lpr "kprinter". In
>>>"kprinter" you can click on the "Expand" button and then you find on the
>>>"Advanced Options" tab a possibility to let jobs get held infinitely or
>>>for a certain time. In the queue management of the KDE Printing Manager
>>>you can release jobs, modify options, hold time, or move them to another
>>>queue.
>>>
>>>I post this on the CUPS mailing list
>>>(http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php), there you will probably get
>>>additional help.
>>>
>>>   Till
>>
>>
>>Commandline alternative (to set the currently sent job on hold):
>>   
>>   lp -d printername -o job-hold-until=indefinite
>>   lpr -P printername -o job-hold-until=indefinite
>>
>>or, alternativly
>>
>>   lp -d printername -H hold
>>
>>Commandline alternative (to set the default to hold jobs indefinitely for
>>any named printer):
>>   
>>   lpoptions -p printername -o job-hold-until=indefinite
>>
>>Repeat for each printer you need to have this behaviour.
>>
>>If run as user, an appropriate entry will be inserted into the
> 
> "HOME/.lpoptions"
> 
>>file. If run as root, the entry will go to "/etc/cups/lpoptions". In case
> 
> a user
> 
>>has no overriding entry in in his own .lpoptions file, the one in
> 
> /etc/cups/
> 
>>will be the one used.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Bashir, Anwar wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Till,
>>>>
>>>>I am not sure if you can help, but here is my problem.
>>>>
>>>>I have set up CUPS and my Linux(Mandrake) box.
>>>>
>>>>I have configured printers from the web interface and all works fine.
>>>>
>>>>However, I would like ALL jobs submitted to be placed on hold, I would
>>>>release them from the web-page when I need them. The printers are
>>>
> connected
> 
>>>>via IPP, which I believe supports "Hold-Job" . After reading a variety of
>>>>documentation I also believe that it might be possible to use the
>>>
> location
> 
>>>>directive to automatically place all jobs on hold.
>>>>
>>>><Location /jobs>
>>>>...
>>>>...
>>>></Location>
>>>>
>>>>To date, I have been unable to verify that what I am trying to achieve is
>>>>possible. I think that I need to place some information into the
>>>
> cupsd.conf
> 
>>>>file, but I have been unable to ascertain the syntax to use to achieve
>>>
> the
> 
>>>>holding of all jobs on all printers until ready to release. (That is
>>>>providing that it is possible at all).
>>>>
>>>>Can you advise?
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Anwar Bashir
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
> 
>