cupsd.conf keeps changing

Bill Moss bmoss at clemson.edu
Sat Jan 8 23:47:57 UTC 2005


The first time I experimented with cups, I found that it was scanning 
and finding bogus printers. The scanning was just screwing things up and 
causing K Print Manager to hang. All I wanted to do was configure 
gutenberg, ramunujan, and guthrie. I found that if I set

Browsing Off

in cupsd.conf

the problem went away. The default is On.

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
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>>Tim Waugh wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:09:41PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote:
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>>>>My cupsd.conf file keeps changing, adding printers I had deleted and
>>>>removing access to networks other than 127.0.0.0. I'll edit the file and
>>>>restore it to the state I want it. But after the next reboot or
>>>>seemingly after a few days, the file has changed again. What is changing
>>>>cupsd.conf? What file or files controls what gets put in cupsd.conf?
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>>>Remove system-config-printer if you need to hand-edit CUPS files.
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>>In addition to getting rid of system-config-printer.  Updating cups
>>package will sometimes overwrite your existing cupsd.conf (old copy
>>saved to cupsd.conf.rpmsave).  Do you have yum enabled to automatically
>>download and install updates (what is the output of "chkconfig --list yum")?
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>If there are USB printers involved, there is apparently a bug where the
>USB subsystem creates duplicates of printers created with other tools.
>It's in Bugzilla somewhere, probably under CUPS.
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-- 
Bill Moss
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University




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