Tim wrote: > Tim: > >>>Do you have the cups-config-daemon running? It automatically >>>reconfigures CUPS in some way that I've not seen detailed. Yes. It is running and automatically destroys whatever I could change in cupsd.conf file to have my system working properly. We have no information about this daemon: who starts it, how to stop its nuisances, etc. Every man about cups system refer to http://localhost:631/documentation.html I can read in http://localhost:631/sam.html#7_3 (Sorry for the French, I cannot find this in english! in german, spanish, but not english!) Changer la configuration du serveur Le fichier /etc/cups/cupsd.conf contient des directives de configuration qui contrôlent le fonctionnement du serveur. Chaque directive suivie de sa valeur est disposée seule sur une ligne. Les commentaires sont ouverts par le signe dièse ("#") au début de la ligne. Etant donné que le fichier de configuration du serveur est un fichier texte, vous pouvez le modifier au moyen de votre éditeur de texte préféré. I translate the last sentence: You can modify it (cupsd.conf) with your preferred text editor. Why this possibility and why should I try to do so if "cups-config-daemon", systematically destroy my work? > > > Gene Heskett: > >>What distrib uses that, I never want to even burn a copy to cd if it >>does that. > > > FC4, at least. Did you think we were discussing something other than > Fedora on this list? Are you so vehement against HAL, Kudzu, and other > auto-config tools? If they are more harmful than useful, yes, we must be vehement against them. > At least this one can be disabled How to? as you say it yourself later on: there is no documentation!!!! > > So far the only description I can find of it is what's written into the > system configuration GUI (This is a daemon for configuring printers > through D-BUS). I've found no documention, just websites where people > have attributed it to problems, and instructions to turn it off. So, something is to be changed in Fedora distributions! -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris 5 - Paris http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
