Where does hplip store the printers' past status events?

Adding a fax history log is on our todo list. Although I can't promise if/when/if ever this will be added..we are looking at adding this functionality in the future.

Sorry about the delay!

Aaron

Thanks for your quick answer!

Do I guess correctly that the entries hp-toolbox shows in the status tab are taken from hpssd and get lost as soon as this daemon gets stopped or restarted?

Yes, the events are stored in a ring buffer in hpssd and are lost when that
process (hp-systray) exits. They are not written to disk (that would be easy
to add, however).

And, actually, in checking on this question for you, I found a bug in the
code - the prop.history_size value (which specifies the size of the ring
buffer) was not being initialized, and, because of the way the code is
written is returning a blank '' string... so, the length of the ring buffer
that holds these values in hpssd is essentially unlimited, I believe.

In regard to faxes, I want to support a fax log in the future, but this fax
log would be separate from the events in hp-systray. Notably, the device
itself does contain a fax log internally, and you can probably get a lot of
the information that you need directly from the device (front panel menu,
etc). I have the start of some code to retrieve the fax log from the device,
but it is currently not working or finished, and is in limbo until I have
the time to work on it again.

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> Thanks for your quick answer!
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> Do I guess correctly that the entries hp-toolbox shows in the status tab
> are taken from hpssd and get lost as soon as this daemon gets stopped or
> restarted?
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