I had a problem similar to that and solved it by adding one more Linux
machine to my network. Its job was to provide an older technology print
queue (Not CUPS). Worked for me. I think I used RH 7.0



On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:22:34 -0600, Si Brindley wrote:

> Hi all; I'm trying to use CUPS but we have an odd requirement that it
> doesn't seem to fulfill: We're using some DOS emulation software called
> RealNG (printing is configured to use 'lpr'...or any other command line
> utility) and CUPS prints after a 15-second timeout, whether the job has
> been closed or not. Is it possible to stop CUPS from closing (and
> printing) jobs it assumes are finished?
>
> If I was using LPRng then I could can specify 'connect_timeout=0' in its
> configuration file (LPD.conf, I think).. ..but CUPS' implementation of
> lpr just ignores this as far as I can tell
>
> I'm changed from LPRng to CUPS because we're printing to Novel print
> queues and Windows printer shares, and CUPS handles this beautifuly
> apart from this seemingly-forced timeout. I'd really appreciate
> suggestions for a solution.
>
> Si Brindley