Some help, please, to understand

[peter]

> Is /etc/cups NFS-mounted or otherwise protected (like being mounted =
> read-only)?
>
No /etc/cups is not NFS mounted
and the permissions are :_

[root at dekglv1 cups]# cd /
[root at dekglv1 /]# ls -al | grep etc
drwxr-xr-x 109 root   root       12288 Aug 20 11:03 etc
[root at dekglv1 /]# cd etc
[root at dekglv1 etc]# ls -alrt | grep cups
drwxr-xr-x   5 root   lp        4096 Aug  9 15:08 cups
[root at dekglv1 etc]#

I suspect some changes have been made to secure the system - but what they are I do not know.

On this test machine the permissions are

[root at SBOKI1 /]# ls -alrt | grep etc
drwxr-xr-x 111 root   root          12288 Aug 20 04:13 etc
[root at SBOKI1 /]# cd etc
[root at SBOKI1 etc]# ls -alrt | grep cups
drwxr-xr-x   5 root   lp         4096 Aug 19 09:58 cups
[root at SBOKI1 etc]#
and the printers.conf is being updated OK

Thats why I am confused.

The gist of it is :-

lpadmin does not update /etc/cups/printers.conf
and I can not see why