cupsd.conf changes settings by itself

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Mar 6 08:51:46 PST 2007


Juergen wrote:
> I am running CUPS 1.2.7 build from source on a Fedora 4 platform (2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp).
> Compiling and installing went smoothly.
> In the web interface under administration I disabled “Show printers shared by other systems” and enabled “Share published printers connected to this system”, “Allow remote administration” and “Allow users to cancel any job (not just their own)” and save this setting supplying the root passwd.  Once done the attached printer HP Laserjet 1022 appears on the LAN and prints without problems.
> Unfortunately after some time (between 5 min and several hours) this settings get reset to the default and the printer disappears from the network.
> Does anyone have the same problem and eventually a solution?

This is caused by the third-party "cups-config-daemon" software that
is used on Fedora and several other Linux distros.  Basically, you
want to remove that software to prevent it from destroying your
cupsd.conf changes...

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