[cups.general] printers.conf

[Michael R Sweet]

Oskar Hajek wrote:
>> Oskar Hajek wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> is it possible to reload the printers.conf w/o hanging up cupsd?
>> No, but you can use lpadmin, the web interface, or the
>> CUPS_ADD_MODIFY_PRINTER and CUPS_DELETE_PRINTER IPP operation to add,
>> modify, or delete printers without restarting cupsd.
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>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
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> Hi Michael,
> we are currently running 2 independent CUPS Server for SAP environment with about 1500 defined printers.
> It would be nice to create a printer definition on one cups server and synchronize it to the second one. I tried to schedule an update of printers.conf via crontab over a rsync script and reloaded the cups configuration afterwards.
> But under heavy printing load, SAP seems to stuck and cannot connect to the printing port anymore after cupsd was reloaded/restarted. The only way to get SAP Spool System up & running again, is to change and change back  the spool-server inside SAP.
> Any idea how i am able to keep the printer definition synchron w/o reloading/restarting cupsd?

You could write a program that monitors the "master" server for config
changes and mirror them locally.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer