How do I tell HAL to keep its grubby paws off of my printer?
Try
service cups-config-daemon stop
This is provided by hal-cups-utils. If it works to prevent it from restarting next time you reboot do a "chkconfig cups-config-daemon off"
Serge
How do I tell HAL to keep its grubby paws off of my printer?
Try
service cups-config-daemon stop
Serge