02-11-2014
I have a few observations. I apologies if listing them make it seem a little terse for a response, but I will end up in long winded discussion with myself otherwise.
- If you are planning on scheduling this, you will have to name the printer, and therefore run it for each printer. Would you consider looking at the output of lpstat -p (no other parameters) and taking action for each printer that is not in a good state?
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- Why are you planning to cancel a print job? The output will be lost, when the most usual cause is a printer hardware issue, and the job will pick up later.
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- Very pleased to see lots of logging for actions but your tail -50 /var/spool/lp/log may not get the information you are interested in. Perhaps use grep to select information about your print queue and then tail off the last few records.
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- You are searching for state of Warning, but that doesn't cover a queue that is DOWN
These are observations only, and you certainly have the makings of a sensible approach. If it meets your needs, there is nothing else to do.
Robin
Last edited by rbatte1; 02-11-2014 at 01:09 PM..
Reason: ICODE tagging "DOWN" & splleling
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enable(1) User Commands enable(1)
NAME
enable, disable - enable/disable LP printers
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/enable printer...
/usr/bin/disable [-c | -W] [ -r [reason]] printer...
DESCRIPTION
The enable command activates printers, enabling them to print requests submitted by the lp command. enable must be run on the printer
server.
The disable command deactivates printers, disabling them from printing requests submitted by the lp command. By default, any requests that
are currently printing on printer will be reprinted in their entirety either on printer or another member of the same class of printers.
The disable command must be run on the print server.
Use lpstat -p to check the status of printers.
enable and disable only effect queueing on the print server's spooling system. Executing these commands from a client system will have no
effect on the server.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported for use with disable:
-c Cancels any requests that are currently printing on printer. This option cannot be used with the -W option. If the printer
is remote, the -c option will be silently ignored.
-W Waits until the request currently being printed is finished before disabling printer. This option cannot be used with the
-c option. If the printer is remote, the -W option will be silently ignored.
-r [reason] Assigns a reason for the disabling of the printer(s). This reason applies to all printers specified. This reason is
reported by lpstat -p. Enclose reason in quotes if it contains blanks. The default reason is "unknown reason" for the
existing printer, and "new printer" for a printer added to the system but not yet enabled.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported for both enable and disable:
printer The name of the printer to be enabled or disabled. Specify printer using atomic name. See printers.conf(4) for information
regarding the naming conventions for atomic names.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
non-zero An error occurred.
FILES
/var/spool/lp/* LP print queue.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWpcu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
lp(1), lpstat(1), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 1996 enable(1)