CUPS won't parse config file

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Sat Jun 25 02:29:15 PDT 2005


I have done a default build of CUPS from source on Linux 2.6.11.10 and get the message:

cupsd: Child exited on signal 15!
cups: unable to start scheduler.

Uncommenting ANY line in cupsd.conf seems to prevent cupsd from starting.
Why does the supplied configuration not seem to match the format that cupsd expects?

I am definitely using the config files installed from the source package.

The following turns up in the error log:

E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 25.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 142.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 408.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 748.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 749.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 750.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 751.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 752.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 805.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 813.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 814.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 817.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 818.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 819.
E [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] Unknown directive  on line 822.
X [25/Jun/2005:10:26:43 +0100] No valid Listen or Port lines were found in the configuration file!





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