CUPS admin for users

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:25 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Mon, October 3, 2005 11:40 am, Rick Stevens said:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> >> On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said:
> >> > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter <tpotter at techmarin.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks Alexey,
> >> >> >    These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really
> >> >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the
> >> >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks,
> >> >> > Mark
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart
> >> >
> >> > What I should have done...
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending....  :-)
> >> >
> >> > Pretty much what I did do. ;-)
> >>
> >> Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend
> >> getting used to the following command:
> >>
> >> service servicename [stop|start|restart|status]
> >>
> >> where in your situation, would appear as
> >>
> >> service cupsd restart
> >>
> >> though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start
> >> with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working
> >> on
> >> heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large
> >> config
> >> files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they
> >> don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might
> >> not be necessary.
> >
> > Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as
> > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart".  The first invokes a shell script
> > to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second
> > bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly.
> 
> Okay, I give... I knew that, too. It's just easier to type service ...
> than /etc/rc.d/init.d/sname (even with the nice TAB feature of completing
> things bash has).
> 
> On AIX it's stopsrc -s sname
> then startsrc -s sname... very annoying, IMHO.

Ah, but then again (to paraphrase Doug Adams), "AIX is something not
quite exactly unlike Unix."

AIX was written by Locus Computing in the Peoples' Republic of Santa
Monica (the same folk who brought you Xenix...ugh!) and is Unix-like,
but not Unix.

> > Just me being my normal, persnickety self!  :-D
> 
> Don't stop. I think I speak for at least myself when I say, it's part of
> your charm...

Yeah, charming...like a cobra!  Heheheheheh!

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