[cups] CUPS RHEL 5 versus CUPS RHEL 8

[Jörg Thümmler]

Hi,

looking into a backup of an old server with cups 1.4.6 I found the 
"Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock" of course. Can't imagine working cups 
without that, but maybe earlier versions had no setting for it, maybe 
hardcoded...

cu

jth

Am 31.08.23 um 16:22 schrieb Johnnie W Adams:
> Hi,
> 
>       I've been kind of narrating this as I figured it out. Somehow, I've
> got cups 1.3.7 working from the command line without a Listen
> /var/run/cups/cups.sock directive in cupsd.conf . Apparently I can't do
> that with cups 2.2.6 . If there's a difference, that's it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       John A
> 
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:27 AM Jörg Thümmler <listen at vordruckleitverlag.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> could be interesting, which new stuff exactly - can you give a short
>> summery?
>>
>> --
>> cu
>>
>> jth
>>
>> Am 30.08.23 um 22:27 schrieb Johnnie W Adams:
>>> Having spent some quality time with CUPS and RHEL 8 the last few days,
>> I'm
>>> ready to say the problem is not RHEL 8. There was new stuff in CUPS 2.x
>>> which I was unaware of and it got me.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 2:58 AM gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/18/23 01:48, Jörg Thümmler wrote:
>>>>> Am 17.08.23 um 21:26 schrieb John Adams:
>>>>>> Hi, folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         I've been migrating a set of servers from RHEL 5 to RHEL 8 and
>>>>>> everything is fine, with one exception: CUPS fails me, a lot. Despite
>>>>>> my best efforts, I'm unable to get fairly basic stuff working. I can't
>>>>>> authorize users to print from the command line without entering a
>>>>>> password, and I've got perfectly ordinary print queues that just won't
>>>>>> print.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         Has anyone else experienced this? Is CUPS just not good with
>>>>>> RHEL 8?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         John A
>>>> You may be getting cups from the wrong src. Its latest is at:
>>>> <https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups>
>>>> Michael is no longer at Apple.
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>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> unfortunately I'm not experienced in RHEL... but your first problem
>>>>> sounds familiar to me ("I can't authorize users to print from the
>>>>> command line without entering a password") - my Opensuse does the same
>>>>> after I by accident once activated a "kerberos" thing on cups website,
>>>>> (deactivating does not help):
>>>>> For some reason cups (or whoever) changes my printers.conf entries for
>>>>> smb printers. Usually there is a "AuthInfoRequired username,password"
>>>>> line for such printer and randomly this is changed magically to
>>>>> "AuthInfoRequired negotiate". This leads to the need of passwd
>> entering.
>>>>>
>>>>> After a lot of searching with no success to stop this, I came out with
>> a
>>>>> periodic automatic checking and repairing this ;-(
>>>>>
>>>>> For the queues not printing: the jobs where builded, when you try to
>>>>> print? Localhost:631 shows the jobs and the printers correctly?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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