How to delete a printer if cups server is down?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 14 08:51:33 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:43 +0200, jmborr wrote:
> Final solution:
> As root, 
> 
> 1) edit /etc/cups/cupds.conf
> 2) search for line "Browsing On" and change to "Browsing Off"
> 3) $> service cups stop
> 4) $> rm /var/cache/cups/remote.cache
> 5) $> service cups start
> 
> "Browsing Off" will prevent the printer server to update the printer list with those pesky ghost printers.
> 
The real solution is to configure printers only on the server. The if
the server is down there will be no printers available.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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