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: > >>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 >> >> > > If you say so; however, I would verify that the deamon is not started by > default for runlevels 3-5.. > > Like I said, I don't run cups or the cups-config-deamon at startup # chkconfig --list | grep cups cups 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off cups-config-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off This seems to be a problem with USB hotplug. But I've checked all the hotplug config files I can find and I don't see any printer stuff. Thanks, John </blockquote></div> Have you tried enabling cups at startup to see if your problem goes away? Why have you disabled cups? Is your system is that resource limited?