What keeps overwriting my cupsd.conf?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I've killed that daemon and I'm still seeing my cupsd.conf file being overwritten!

I do see that eggcups is running -- could that be the culprit?

Thanks

> Righto -- I moved it from S to K in my rc3 and rc5 -- I think that's roughly what chkconfig stop does.
>
> Any ideas what this daemon does, other than inconveniently overwrite my conf file?  Is it for autodetecting new printers on the network / plugged into the localhost?  Or does CUPS itself handle those tasks?
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> > Anonymous wrote:
> > > Fedora Core 4 -- and you're right, I see this process listed.  What is my best move here?  Is there a config file for that process?
> >
> > Best to ask the Red Hat folks, but all I do is:
> >
> >      /etc/init.d/cups-config-daemon stop
> >      chkconfig cups-config-daemon off
> >
> > --
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