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From: Alain.Lachapelle@Heimannsystems.Com Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:36:27 +0100 Subject: Antwort: Re: PPR: Retry on fault, but no printer >Le 17 avril 2001 a 10:21, Alain.Lachapelle@Heimannsystems.Com a écrit : >> This is very basic, but I haven;t done it before, so I removed the >> printer from the network to find that when new jobs were processed by ppr, >> ppr reported appropriately "fault", but was keeping on with retries. Is >> there a way for ppr to see that there are no printer at the other end and >> to trigger a responder error ? Printer is HP LaserJet. >You could stop the printer by issuing a 'ppop reject <destination>'. By >reading through the ppad(8) and ppop(1) man pages, I think it is the >cleanest solution, but may be wrong. This will send a message to the >user every time he tries to print on this particular destination. Yes, although this condition has to be detected by software. ppr runs as a sub-process launched to print jobs inside a dedicated system with dedicated user interface. Users have to know that the printer is out because they tend to press the print button 50 times when it does not work. Only way so far is to parse one "ppop status" report and look for the word "fault". If "fault" then all print jobs are canceled and the users are alerted. That would be great for ppr to detect that there are no printers since it would then be possible to rely exclusively on ppr to handle the print jobs. Alain