[cups.general] Some help, please, to understand

[Michael Sweet]

On Aug 2, 2010, at 1:44 AM, peter wrote:
> ...
> The O/S : Oracle Unbreakable Linux 5 aka RHEL 5
> The CUPS version : 1.2.4
> [As supplied with the release]

This version shouldn't delay writes to printers.conf; do you see any errors in /var/log/cups/error_log?

> Rebboting is via : shutdown -h now
> from the console

You really just want to use "reboot" - halting doesn't give programs a chance to cleanup or save their state...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair