[cups.general] CUPS mime.types file keeps getting overwrittenlosing changes

[Michael Sweet]

Dracula wrote:
> Hello
> 
> /etc/cups/mime.types keeps getting overwritten.  I have made a change to
> uncomment: 
> 
> application/octet-stream 
> 
>         
> for raw printing and three times today the line was re-commented out and
> printing stopped from my application.  Why is this being automatically
> changed and where is it coming from?  I can't find any docs that mention
> it being overwritten. 

I'd guess either a package update or cups-config-daemon.  Without
more information (operating system, version of CUPS, etc.) it is
hard to say.

CUPS itself won't overwrite that file.

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