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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