CUPS servers 1.5.x are able to automatically allows printers that are registered in an LDAP Printing dialogues of applications and with command line tools. In environments with only cups 1.6.x servers and clients (plusĬups-browsed on either server or client or both) the function described in 1.Įnables the automatic discovery of remote queues and their display in Similarly, cups 1.5.x is intended to encompass older versions too. Please take references to cups 1.6.x to include newer versions. SIGUSR2: Switches cups-browsed into auto shutdown mode. SIGUSR1: Switches cups-browsed into permanent mode (no auto shutdown). SIGNALS SIGINT, SIGTERM: cups-browsed will shutdown. 0 means immediate shutdown.ĭisplay usage and version info and do not start the daemon. autoshutdown-timeout=timeout timeout tells after how many seconds cups-browsed should shut down if it has no local queues set up for any discovered remote printer any more or jobs on these. inactivity-type set to no-queues (the default) means that auto-shutdown is initiated if there are no queues generated by cups-browsed any more, no-jobs means that auto-shutdown will get initiated if all queues generated by cups-browsed are without jobs. What cups-browsed considers as inactivity for auto-shutdown. If command-line-supplied configuration settings are contradicting with the ones in the configuration file, the ones in the configuration file will get used.Īuto shutdown mode, mode is off for no auto shutdown, on for auto shutdown being active, and avahi for control by the avahi-daemon being run on-demand, getting auto-shutdown turned off while avahi-daemon is present and on when avahi-daemon is shut down.
You can supply any line which also could be put into the configuration file, but note that due to the spaces the line has to be put into quotes, or for a simple key/value pair the space between key and value can get replaced by '='. Supply configuration options via the command line. o option = value, -o ' config file line' Uses the alternative configuration file config-file instead of the standard one. For running it on-demand an auto-shutdown feature can be activated to let cups-browsed terminate when it does not have queues any more to take care of.ĭebug logging into /var/log/cups/cups-browsed_log file. The CUPS broadcasting/browsing protocol is deprecated.Ĭups-browsed can be run permanently (from system boot to shutdown) or on-demand (for example to save resources on mobile devices). The standard method to broadcast for shared/network printers to broadcast their presence is Bonjour. are only to allow communication with legacy CUPS servers (1.5.x or older) on the remote machine(s).
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