Cups restart

[david walcroft]

david walcroft wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:30 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>  
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> I'm trying to restart cupsd but get this error,
>>>>>
>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo service cups restart
>>>>> Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]
>>>>> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
>>>>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I kill a child.
>>>>>             
>>>> ----
>>>> sounds bad...don't ask it that way.
>>>>
>>>> ps aux|grep cups
>>>>
>>>> Is there something running?
>>>>
>>>> Haven't we been down this path before?
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes Craig we have visited a cups problem a month or so ago,
>>> Cups worked well until a large update down loaded then printing
>>> stopped.
>>>
>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo ps aux|grep cups
>>> david     7774  0.0  0.0   4044   676 pts/1    S+   09:19   0:00 
>>> grep cups
>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>
>>> I looked through 'ps aux' and didn't find anything (not that means 
>>> anything)
>>> of a cups child.
>>>     
>> ----
>> let's look at cups/error_log then.
>>
>> tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/error_log
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>   
> This error log is yesterdays and none for today although I have tried
> printing today.
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/error_log
>
> david
>
Craig I have lost your last email Re:DefaultAuthType Basic

david