Cannot restart printing service (cupsd) from Mac
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Mon Mar 13 16:39:02 PST 2006
anonymous wrote:
>> For Tiger, cupsd is integrated with launchd, so you don't always need
> to restart it.
>
> For Panther the most reliable way to restart is to use:
>
> sudo killall cupsd
> sudo cupsd
>
> With Tiger, just use the first command.
>
> I guess it's rather a problem with Mac than with CUPS.
>
> There's one senario:
> I put ppd in /usr/share/cups/model, and I can add PPD through 127.0.0.1:631
> but the printer is not available in Printer Setup Utility.
>
> So, I have to restart Mac...
The Printer Setup Utility looks in /Library/Printers/PPDs (I think
that's the path), so you might have more luck putting the PPD under
the corresponding language subdir...
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