[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #2267: launchd items installed in /System/Library/LaunchDaemon which is reserved for Apple

Ralph Böhme ralph.boehme at supported.de
Wed Feb 28 11:59:11 PST 2007


Michael Sweet schrieb:

> *Except* that CUPS is a standard part of Mac OS X, and Apple installs the
> CUPS launch daemon files in /System/Library/LaunchDaemon...  

It also lives in /System/Library/StartupItems/ which you remove.

> If we don't
> install in /System, you'll have *two* copies of CUPS running, which is
> guaranteed to fail!

Wrong. You only have two running cupsd if you don't stop the apple 
provided ones appropiately. Then you install your own. Wherever it is 
appropiate. Which /System/... is not.

See also:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=871762&tstart=0

Regards

Ralph

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