cupsd.conf changes settings by itself

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Mar 16 07:59:31 PDT 2007


Juergen wrote:
>>> 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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>>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>>> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
>> Hi Michael,
>> that did the job. Thank you very much. Got some help killing the daemon:
>> http://www.atomfilms.com/collections/ninjai/cplay.html?id=ninjai01&prefs=bs
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> for 8 days it worked fine but now if started to reset the settings again. I didn't touch the server in between. No updates, no installations - nothing. Any idea where to look?

Have you updated the system?  I'd guess that an update to the
cups-config-daemon software might re-enable it.

Also, fiddling with the admin utilities might re-enable the service.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com




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