[cups.general] cupsd removes filter from printers.conf

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Sep 6 03:38:53 PDT 2010


Wilhelm wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I want to setup local filtering. So I added some filter directives to
> printers.conf. Then restarted cups. After some seconds (cups is idle),
> cupsd reports "Saving printers.conf".
> 
> But: it removes the filter directives from the printers.conf. Therefore
> the local filtering does not take place.
> 
> Any hints why cupsd removes the filter directives?
> 

Before editing the printers.conf file, you *must* shut down cupsd and 
restart it afterwards.
I'm not sure how the filter directive in printers.conf depends on the 
*cupsFilter: "..."
entries in  the printer's PPD; you'll need to try that out.

Helge





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