fc5, cups at odds

[Kam Leo]

On 9/13/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I brought my lappy back from MI and have been basicly just updating it once
> a week or so since.
>
> Tonight I thought maybe I'd see if my printer list on this machine was
> visible on that machine, but anything I do that requires a cups restart
> fails because after the editing by localhost:631, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is
> a zero length file.  Repeatedly.  This list of 4 configs, all pointing at
> the same printer, is visible on all the other machines on this network,
> and is usable by those machines including one kubuntu-6.06.1 out in my
> shop.
>
> The c88 that was connected to it is not now, and cups miss-reported it as
> available and ready before I started screwing around.
>
> How do I trace when cups was updated?  Its currently, according to yumex,
> labeled as cups, version 1:1.2.3-1.2
>

Have you checked /var/log/yum.log?

> --
> Cheers, Gene

You might also try disabling cups-config-deamon service. It has been a
source of problems since July 2005.