On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:09:41PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote: > > > > > >>My cupsd.conf file keeps changing, adding printers I had deleted and > >>removing access to networks other than 127.0.0.0. I'll edit the file and > >>restore it to the state I want it. But after the next reboot or > >>seemingly after a few days, the file has changed again. What is changing > >>cupsd.conf? What file or files controls what gets put in cupsd.conf? > > > > > > Remove system-config-printer if you need to hand-edit CUPS files. > > In addition to getting rid of system-config-printer. Updating cups > package will sometimes overwrite your existing cupsd.conf (old copy > saved to cupsd.conf.rpmsave). Do you have yum enabled to automatically > download and install updates (what is the output of "chkconfig --list yum")? If there are USB printers involved, there is apparently a bug where the USB subsystem creates duplicates of printers created with other tools. It's in Bugzilla somewhere, probably under CUPS. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
