man/notifier.man

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   9 .TH notifier 7 "CUPS" "12 June 2014" "Apple Inc."
  10 .SH NAME
  11 notifier \- cups notification interface
  12 .SH SYNOPSIS
  13 .B notifier
  14 .I recipient
  15 [
  16 .I user-data
  17 ]
  18 .SH DESCRIPTION
  19 The CUPS notifier interface provides a standard method for adding support for new event notification methods to CUPS.
  20 Each notifier delivers one or more IPP events from the standard input to the specified recipient.
  21 .LP
  22 Notifiers \fBMUST\fR read IPP messages from the standard input using the
  23 .BR ippNew ()
  24 and
  25 .BR ippReadFile ()
  26 functions and exit on error.
  27 Notifiers are encouraged to exit after a suitable period of inactivity, however they may exit after reading the first message or stay running until an error is seen.
  28 Notifiers inherit the environment and can use the logging mechanism documented in
  29 .BR filter (7).
  30 .SH SEE ALSO
  31 .BR cupsd (8),
  32 .BR filter (7),
  33 CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)
  34 .SH COPYRIGHT
  35 Copyright \[co] 2007-2018 by Apple Inc.