[cups.general] Two issues: one annoying, one confusing

[Michael Sweet]

Rob Tanner wrote:
>   I'm just getting in to CUPS and quite pleased with it's feature-rich 
> character.  I do have two issues however:
> 
> 1.  After a print job has been submitted to the printer, the web 
> interface continues to present the status:/ "Print file sent, waiting 
> for printer to finish..."/   This is confusing for our lab monitors who 
> support those users who print in the public access computer labs.  Is 
> this a bug in CUPS, or is it a configuration thing that I haven't gotten 
> far enough into CUPS to figure out yet?

The socket backend isn't clearing its last message.  We've addressed
this in 1.2...

> 2.  I'm running the version of CUPS (v1.1.23) that comes bundled with 
> Fedora Core and I'm using the system-config-printer command and the GUI 
> it brings up to add new printers, setup the drivers, etc.  Whenever I do 
> that, I loose the ability to access the web interface from my 
> workstation and in order to get access back, I have to manually edit the 
> cupsd.conf file and add back in a Listen <hostname>:631 option so it can 
> be accessed by other than localhost (no, I do not delete the Listen 
> 127.0.01:631 line).  What do I do to keep that from happening all the time.

Don't use system-config-printer, but instead use the web interface
to add your printers.

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