[akonstam: Re: cups sucks me] desperate!

[david walcroft]

François Patte wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:00:21AM +0530, François Patte wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Tim wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Tim:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Do you have the cups-config-daemon running?  It automatically
>>>>>>reconfigures CUPS in some way that I've not seen detailed.
>>>
>>>Yes. It is running and automatically destroys whatever I could change in
>>>cupsd.conf file to have my system working properly.
>>>
>>>We have no information about this daemon: who starts it, how to stop its
>>>nuisances, etc.
>>>
>>>Every man about cups system refer to
>>>http://localhost:631/documentation.html
>>>
>>>I can read in http://localhost:631/sam.html#7_3
>>>
>>>(Sorry for the French, I cannot find this in english! in german,
>>>spanish, but not english!)
>>>
>>>Changer la configuration du serveur
>>>
>>>Le fichier /etc/cups/cupsd.conf contient des directives de configuration
>>>qui contrôlent le fonctionnement du serveur. Chaque directive suivie de
>>>sa valeur est disposée seule sur une ligne. Les commentaires sont
>>>ouverts par le signe dièse ("#") au début de la ligne. Etant donné que
>>>le fichier de configuration du serveur est un fichier texte, vous pouvez
>>>le modifier au moyen de votre éditeur de texte préféré.
>>>
>>>I translate the last sentence:
>>>
>>>You can modify it (cupsd.conf) with your preferred text editor.
>>>
>>>Why this possibility and why should I try to do so if
>>>"cups-config-daemon", systematically destroy my work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>FC4, at least.  Did you think we were discussing something other than
>>>>Fedora on this list?  Are you so vehement against HAL, Kudzu, and other
>>>>auto-config tools?
>>>
>>>If they are more harmful than useful, yes, we must be vehement against
>>>them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>At least this one can be disabled
>>>
>>>How to? as you say it yourself later on: there is no documentation!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>So far the only description I can find of it is what's written into the
>>>>system configuration GUI (This is a daemon for configuring printers
>>>>through D-BUS).  I've found no documention, just websites where people
>>>>have attributed it to problems, and instructions to turn it off.
>>>
>>>So, something is to be changed in Fedora distributions!
>>>
>>
>>Stop cups-config-daemon by doing:
>>chkconfig cups-config-daemon off
> 
> 
> I've done this 2 days ago (adding --level 2345 to be sure!)
> 
> BUT: still something is re-writing my cupsd.conf on my server and
> clients are still unable to print.....
> 
> This re-writing is not done at boot time but at some times I cannot
> determine.
> 
> I check the cron and anacron daemon, I check the crontab: nothing.
> 
> Who has invented something like and for what purpose; I feel to be under
> windows when you cannot do anything because everything is hidden!!!
> 
> 
Has anyone suggested the following:-

service cups-config-daemon stop
chkconfig cups-config-daemon off

I always remove the daemon,known to cause havock on some systems

     david