On 11/14/05, John Wendel <<a href="mailto:jwendel10@comcast.net">jwendel10@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Kam Leo wrote: > On 11/14/05, John Wendel <<a href="mailto:jwendel10@comcast.net">jwendel10@comcast.net</a>> wrote: > >> >>Running updated FC3 system. >> >>I've got an HP PSC 1210 that works fine when I configure it using CUPS >>and the HPLIP driver. >> >>The problem I'm having is that whenever I turn the printer on, my config >>is destroyed and some nasty hotplug something installs a non-functional >>configuration. >> >>I need to know how to disable this automatic printer configuration >>process. >> >>Thanks, >> >>John >> >> > > Try turning off the cups-config-deamon service. > > Thanks for the reply, but I don't run the cups-config-daemon. It looks like something (hald ?) is running the redhat printer configuration tool. My printer config file gets modified when the system boots. I don't start cups or the hplip drivers when the system boots, I run them whenever I want to print something (about once a month). Thanks, John </blockquote></div> If you say so; however, I would verify that the deamon is not started by default for runlevels 3-5..