[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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