On 7/19/05, Reuben D. Budiardja <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 10:41, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:17:28AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > <snip> > > Well, you have to restart cups with 'service cups restart' before the > > changes are picked up. > > Yes, now that you mentioned it, I can't remember if I did that or not, maybe > not. > > > But system-config-printer should be doing both of these steps: > > rebuilding the configuration, and restarting cups. I wonder what was > > stopping it. > > I found another FC 3 machine, set up the printers from there (also to test to > make sure my print server on Redhat machine works fine). Then I exported the > setting: > /usr/sbin/system-config-printer-tui --Xexport > settings.xml > and import the conf. in the FC 4 box: > /usr/sbin/system-config-printer-tui --Ximport < settings.xml > > After restarted cups, the printers works fine, and apps can see the printers. > > So that solves the problem for me. But it still doesn't explain why > system-config-printer fails in the first place. > > Thanks for your help / respond. > > RDB > > > Tim. > > */ > > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Dept. Physics and Astronomy > University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > You may have run afoul of this bug: http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L301
