SuSE 10.0, CUPS 1.1.23 Is it possible to restrict the availability of a printer so that it will only print between certain hours although it accepts print jobs 24/7? I've noticed quotas but this seems to be number of jobs or pages per time period. I'm trying to ensure that any jobs printed late at night are held in the queue until the rest of the household is awake the next day. TIA John
John wrote:
SuSE 10.0, CUPS 1.1.23
Is it possible to restrict the availability of a printer so that it will only print between certain hours although it accepts print jobs 24/7?
I've noticed quotas but this seems to be number of jobs or pages per time period. I'm trying to ensure that any jobs printed late at night are held in the queue until the rest of the household is awake the next day. You could stop/start the printer. Cups will queue the jobs til it is restarted. To automate it, maybe use cron. Or just turn the printer off and on.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871
Hello, On Aug 11 16:04 John wrote (shortened):
SuSE 10.0, CUPS 1.1.23 Is it possible to restrict the availability of a printer so that it will only print between certain hours although it accepts print jobs 24/7?
Use /usr/bin/disable and /usr/bin/enable (see "man disable") in a cron script. Compare "man disable" with "man accept". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Aug 11 16:04 John wrote (shortened):
SuSE 10.0, CUPS 1.1.23 Is it possible to restrict the availability of a printer so that it will only print between certain hours although it accepts print jobs 24/7?
Use /usr/bin/disable and /usr/bin/enable (see "man disable") in a cron script.
Compare "man disable" with "man accept".
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Hi, Johannes. Thanks for the information. It seems from direct experiment that accept needs to be set then use disable and enable to toggle. I hadn't seen these commands in my searches. Now to set my first cron jobs! Regards John
Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Aug 11 16:04 John wrote (shortened):
SuSE 10.0, CUPS 1.1.23 Is it possible to restrict the availability of a printer so that it will only print between certain hours although it accepts print jobs 24/7?
Use /usr/bin/disable and /usr/bin/enable (see "man disable") in a cron script.
Compare "man disable" with "man accept".
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Hi, Johannes. Thanks for the information. It seems from direct experiment that accept needs to be set then use disable and enable to toggle. I hadn't seen these commands in my searches. Now to set my first cron jobs! Regards John -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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