CUPS won't parse config file

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Sat Jun 25 03:14:23 PDT 2005


I edited with vi, which isn't wrapping lines:

Even stripping cupsd.conf down to this still produces the same error:
Am I doing something stupid?

ServerName PENTIUM-4
LogLevel debug

Port 631
Listen 192.168.0.185

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

<Location /admin>

AuthType Basic
AuthClass System

Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1

</Location>


> > 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!
> >
>
> Just a wild guess: when you edited the config file did your editor wrap lines > 80 chars? if so, that might be the cause.
>





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