On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:30, François Patte 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? > >> 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! > Humm, unless FC4 has seriously fouled its nest, one really should be able to do something along the lines of this from a root shell: #>chkconfig cups-config-daemon off #>service cups-config-daemon stop And it should be stopped forever. >-- >François Patte >UFR de mathématiques et informatique >Université Paris 5 - Paris >http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
