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

Mike Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Sep 6 08:32:44 PDT 2010


Filters are loaded from the PPD file - you can't just put them in the printers.con file and have them work.

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On Sep 6, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Wilhelm <wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Wilhelm
> 
> 
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