Manual: cups-browsed

cups-browsed(8)												     cups-browsed(8)

NAME
       cups-browsed - A daemon for browsing the Bonjour broadcasts of shared, remote CUPS printers

SYNOPSIS
       cups-browsed [-v | -d | --debug] [-c config-file]
       [-o option=value] [-o 'config file line'] ...
       [--autoshutdown=mode] [--autoshutdown-timeout=timeout]
       [-h | --help | --version]

DESCRIPTION
       cups-browsed has two independently switchable functions:

       1.  Browse DNS-SD broadcasts of remote printers and create/remove local CUPS queues pointing to these printers.

       2.  Find shared printers on given CUPS servers and create local CUPS queues pointing to them.

       cups-browsed can be run permanently (from system boot to shutdown) or on-demand (for example to save resources on mo‐
       bile  devices). 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.

OPTIONS
       -v, -d, --debug
	      Debug mode, verbose logging to stderr

       -l, --logfile
	      Debug logging into /var/log/cups-browsed/cups-browsed_log file.

       -c config-file
	      Uses the alternative configuration file config-file instead of the standard one.

       -o option=value, -o 'config file line'
	      Supply configuration options via the command line. 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 '='. If command-line-supplied configuration
	      settings are contradicting with the ones in the configuration file, the ones in the  configuration  file	will
	      get used.

       --autoshutdown=mode
	      Auto 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.

       --autoshutdown-on=inactivity-type
	      What  cups-browsed  considers  as inactivity for auto-shutdown. 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.

       --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. Default is 30 seconds. 0 means immediate shutdown.

       -h, --help, --version
	      Display usage and version info and do not start the daemon.

FILES
       /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf

SIGNALS
       SIGINT, SIGTERM: cups-browsed will shutdown.

       SIGUSR1: Switches cups-browsed into permanent mode (no auto shutdown).

       SIGUSR2: Switches cups-browsed into auto shutdown mode.

NOTES
       This manual page was written for the Debian Project, but it may be used by others.

SEE ALSO
       cups-browsed.conf(5)

							29 June 2013					     cups-browsed(8)