[cups.general] hidden config file for printconf

pierre.frenkiel at apc.univ-paris7.fr pierre.frenkiel at apc.univ-paris7.fr
Thu Jun 8 02:37:40 PDT 2006


I recently installed cups instead of LPRng under Fedora. Naïvely,
I thought that all information was stored in /etc/cups, and that I'll
be able to distribute the config on all computers of the site, as 
this was done with /etc/printcap of lpd.
I discovered that this is not true, and that a lot of parameters are
stored elsewhere. The problem is that I was unable to find
where...
This is not a problem as long as you have a single computer, but it is
one if you want to distribure the same config to 100 machines.
Of course, one can run -Xexport to save the config on a known file,
but that means that you will have to run -Ximport at each reboot.
It would be easier to know where this damned default config file is
hidden!

cheers,
-- 
Pierre Frenkiel


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