Phantom printers on parallel port? (CUPS 1.2.6)

[Michael Sweet]

John Meshkoff wrote:
> I have a Vector Linux 5.8 on one of my partitions, with CUPS 1.2.6
> installed.  The web interface is used here (no VL or other GUI IF),
> and when going to the administration tab, the autodection feature
> shows two non-existant printers connected to the parallel port.
> ...

These are coming from the Gimp-Print epson and canon backends; you
can chmod 000 the backends in /usr/lib/cups/backend to eliminate them
from the list.

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