NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       cups-browsed [-v | -d | --debug] [--autoshutdown=mode]
       [--autoshutdown-timeout=timeout]

DESCRIPTION

       cups-browsed has three independently switchable functions:

       1.  Browse  Bonjour  broadcasts  of  remote printers and create/remove local raw queues pointing to these
           printers.

       2.  Browse CUPS broadcasts of remote printers and  create/remove  local  raw  queues  pointing  to  these
           printers.

       3.  Broadcast local queues with the CUPS protocol.

       Note  that  2.  and  3.  are only to allow communication with legacy CUPS servers (1.5.x or older) on the
       remote machine(s). The standard method to  broadcast  for  shared/network  printers  to  broadcast  their
       presence is Bonjour. The CUPS broadcasting/browsing protocol is deprecated.

       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-demend 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

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

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

       Please take references to cups 1.6.x to include newer versions.  Similarily, cups 1.5.x  is  intended  to
       encompass older versions too.

       In environments with only cups 1.6.x servers and clients (plus cups-browsed on either server or client or
       both) the function described in 1.  enables the automatic discovery of remote queues and their display in
       printing dialogues of applications and with command line tools.

       The  facility  provided by 3. means that servers running cups 1.6.x plus cups-browsed can broadcast their
       local queues so that clients with cups 1.5.x get these queues automatically available. The outcome of  2.
       is  that  clients running cups 1.6.x plus cups-browsed can use the CUPS broadcasts from servers with cups
       1.5.x. As with browsing of Bonjour broadcasts, the created local raw queues are available to applications
       and command line tools.

SEE ALSO

       cups-browsed.conf(5)

       /usr/share/doc/cups-browsed/README.gz

AUTHOR

       The authors of cups-browsed are listed in /usr/share/doc/cups-browsed/AUTHORS.

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

                                                  29 June 2013                                   cups-browsed(8)