Retaining printers.conf when updating CUPS

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Oct 20 07:15:02 PDT 2006


John A. Murdie wrote:
> ...
> So if more than one printer shares a PPD file, 'Set Printer Option'
> web interface foo-default value changes made by the administrator for
> one printer will be overwritten by those for another?
 > ...

No, each printer queue has its own copy of the original PPD file
in the /etc/cups/ppd directory, named using the printer's name,
e.g. for a printer named "Lab410Laser", the PPD file would be
"/etc/cups/ppd/Lab410Laser.ppd".  The originals typically come from
/usr/share/cups/model which are *not* modified by CUPS in any way
(read-only!)

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