[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2136: printers.conf/cupsd.conf can't be symbolic links

twaugh.redhat twaugh at redhat.com
Thu Dec 7 04:32:07 PST 2006


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[STR New]

Some users like to have symbolic links for printers.conf and cupsd.conf in
order to implement 'profiles' for CUPS.

When writing modifications to its configuration files, CUPS should avoid
using rename() if the original names are symbolic links or hard links.

Original bug report:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218442

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2136
Version:  -feature





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