Limiting list of printers seen by user?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Oct 28 03:52:17 PDT 2005


Erik Forsberg wrote:
> ...
> Btw, one funny effect of running CUPS 1.2svn-r4810 on this system is
> that 'kdeprinter' fails to start because it tries to do DNS queries
> for "/var/run/cups/cups.sock", which fails. This happends regardless
> of existence of a 'Listen localhost:631'. Should I file a STR on this?
> Perhaps the configuration variable for file-system-sockets should be
> another, for better backwards compatibility? 

Report the bug to the KDE folks - if they aren't using the CUPS API
properly, then they WILL run into problems.  The CUPS HTTP functions
treat addresses transparently, specifically to allow us to add new
types of addresses (i.e. domain and IPv6) without breaking existing
apps.

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