[cups.general] cupsd keeps dying whenever configured to BrowsePoll

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a known problem with cupsd dying whenever it does
> a BrowsePoll? I'm noticing that cups-polld is orphaned by cups
> and the server is not running. Noticing this with both
> server client as compiled on SunOS5.8 using source on www.cups.org

There is no known problem with BrowsePoll in CUPS 1.2.3.  What
version of CUPS are you using?

> ...
> ps. It would seem that one has to have Browsing On whenever BrowsePoll
> is set.
> Is this a deliberate design? How does cups-polld works. Does it forward
> any packets
> it gets to the local subnet or to the server directly?

Yes, it is deliberate by design.  cups-polld does a CUPS-Get-Printers
request to the polled server and then sends CUPS UDP packets to the
local loopback interface (127.0.0.1) so that cupsd sees them.

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