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

[Michael Sweet]

What version of CUPS?

What operating system/Linux distribution?

How are you rebooting the system?

Normally adding a printer via lpadmin or the web interface should result in the printer showing up in printers.conf; it may take up to a minute in recent versions of CUPS (depending on the configuration) since we try to coalesce writes for better performance, but a normal shutdown of cupsd will force the changes to disk before cupsd exits.

On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:03 PM, peter wrote:

> If I use lpadmin I can add printers to the system
> And they appear in the http://server:631  view
> 
> However, if the server is re-booted, these printers are lost.
> How do I add them to /etc/cups/printers.conf ?
> Should I adding them ?
> I need to have them automatically re-appear on a re-boot.
> 
> Must it be manual ie via an editor ?
> 
> typically these printers are in 1 of 3 groups :
> 
> a)  Dot matrix - ie text printers
> 
> b) Some HP laserjet replacements for the text printers
> 
> c) A large set of remote printers
> 
> the lpadmin command for these is
> 
> lpadmin -p packforms -v lpd://remotewindows/xpackforms -E
> 
> 
> Also, if I add a printer via the http:// interface, /etc/cups/printers.conf
> is not updated, even though I have to log in as root to add a printer
> 
> 
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair