Preventing CUPS from scanning parport

[Dennis Grant]

More info:

>From the debug log:

Apr 28 17:09:21 karzai kernel: [264974.352999] ppdev0: registered pardevice

>From the syslog:

Apr 28 17:09:21 karzai kernel: [264974.352700] sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/ppdev0/timeslice  Sysctl already exists

So clearly CUPS is trying to get the parport and explodes - how can I tell it to not check the parport?

DG