CUPS admin for users

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/29/05, karlp at ourldsfamily.com <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.
>
> Karl

Thanks Karl. I'm down to my one last Redhat machine here. There
probably won't be anymore. I haven't had to restart anything in a long
time as I've not made any config changes in quite awhile now.
Sometimes the brain just goes blank.

Cheers,
Mark