Feature Request: Ability to have a hook stop all hook and job processing, but not cancel the job.

[bpkroth]

Original email:

New question: when using serialized hooks, can one hook be setup to stop
all the rest of them without canceling the job? For example, by exiting
with a value of -2 instead of -1?

For example:

prehook_30checkprinter : check-printer.pl
prehook_40accounting : accounting.pl

In this case check-printer.pl does an nmap on the DEVICE_URI to make
sure it's available, if not it stops the queue and exits with a value of
1.

However, then 40accounting still gets run.

I had originally kept this all in one check but the helpdesk people
wanted to see the state as reported in cups reflect these two cases.
For example:

"Tea4CUPS v3.12-3512 (PID 32004) : Prehook prehook_30checkprinter on
printer testing2 didn't exit successfully."

Instead of:
"Tea4CUPS v3.12-3512 (PID 32004) : Prehook prehook_40accounting on
printer testing2 didn't exit successfully."

This is not possible right now, but could be added in a future release.

Please file a feature request at http://trac.pykota.com

bye

Jerome Alet

[bpkroth]

A quick patch that may provide the functionality I described, implemented using another "special" return code.

[jerome]

(In [3523]) Should fix #49. This is entirely untested, so please report any problem ASAP.