printers.conf

[Oskar Hajek]

> 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
> >>
> > 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?
>
Hi Michael,
> You could write a program that monitors the "master" server for config
> changes and mirror them locally.
but when i just mirror the printers.conf file, i need to reload/restart cupsd to get printer configuration changes recognized by the already running server?!
>
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>