On 2/23/06, François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > The cups-config-deamon problem was discussed on the list back in August 2005. Check this CUPS article for more information: http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L301 > > > > > > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
