On Wed 29 Jul 2015 at 14:21:20 +0200, Tuxo Holic wrote: > Thanks Brian and Jochen for the efforts, but switching off services to > remove the queue and end up with no advertised printer is not an > option as well.
So you want the printer to be advertised. In your first mail you said: I'd prefer network printers to be invisible on the client side, as long as they are not online. Now you want them visible. Why? > So the main goal I was aiming at seems to be not available which was: > give notification to the user, that this network printer is switched > off or out of service due to maintenance, paper jam or what other > reason you could think of. Adapt the script to do cupsreject -r "PrinterSwitchedOff" HP_LaserJet_1020 Tested successfully on a client not running cups, which was something else you were interested in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150729145916.ga1...@copernicus.demon.co.uk