system-config-printer not writing configuration ?

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 14:41:02 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:17:28AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> It doesn't say anything, but now I can see the device 
> in /etc/cups/printers.conf:
> ]# grep URI /etc/cups/printers.conf 
> ...
> DeviceURI socket://160.36.28.51:9100
> DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.100/printers/HomePrinter
> 
> However, trying sending test page from system-config-printer still give me the 
> same error message. Applications (ie. kmail, kate, gedit, etc) still do not 
> see any printer configured there, so I can't print from apps. 

Well, you have to restart cups with 'service cups restart' before the
changes are picked up.

But system-config-printer should be doing both of these steps:
rebuilding the configuration, and restarting cups.  I wonder what was
stopping it.

Tim.
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