Is ~/.cups/client.conf reloaded when it is changed?

[Michael Sweet]

karl runge wrote:
>> No, once a libcups client gets the port and server (typically
>> when getting the list of printers), libcups never reads the
>> client.conf file again.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I can see that going out to the filesystems
> regularly to stat the files is undesirable because it increases
> the chances of getting caught in a glitch, etc.
> 
> Well looks like 'close but no cigar' for me again with CUPS...

Something you could do is make a SSH tunnel from localhost to the
actual server, and just put:

     ServerName localhost:port

in the client.conf file - then you just change the tunnel when
changing servers, independent from CUPS...

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