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Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.
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Classes Directives


As we have seen in the last chapter, the printer class defines the information for a group of printers. This information is placed in the classes.conf file. In this section, we are going to discuss some of the important directives that determine the behavior of the CUPS classes. The printer classes can be managed either directly by editing the classes.conf file or through the command line (lpadmin).

In the following section, we will cover both these methods and explain the following directives in detail:

  • Accepting

  • Printer

  • Class

  • DefaultClass

  • AllowUser

  • DenyUser

  • Info

  • Location

  • JobSheets

  • KLimit

  • PageLimit

  • QuotaPeriod

  • State

  • StateMessage

Accepting

The Accepting directive will start or stop accepting print jobs for the printer group. It defines the initial Boolean value for the printer-is-accepting-job attribute that can be set by the accept and reject commands. These accept and reject commands set the value for these directives to "yes" and "no" respectively...

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Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.
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