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

Wilhelm wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de
Tue Sep 7 00:07:57 PDT 2010


Hello,

Am 06.09.2010 17:33, schrieb Mike Sweet:
> Filters are loaded from the PPD file - you can't just put them in the printers.con file and have them work.
>   

due to weird reasons, cups did not produce the ppd file by itself. So I
had to call cupsdriverd manually to produce the ppd.

Thank you for the advice!

> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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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