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  mobile 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)

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