akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:00:21AM +0530, 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? >> >> >>>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! >> > > Stop cups-config-daemon by doing: > chkconfig cups-config-daemon off I've done this 2 days ago (adding --level 2345 to be sure!) BUT: still something is re-writing my cupsd.conf on my server and clients are still unable to print..... This re-writing is not done at boot time but at some times I cannot determine. I check the cron and anacron daemon, I check the crontab: nothing. Who has invented something like and for what purpose; I feel to be under windows when you cannot do anything because everything is hidden!!! -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris 5 - Paris http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
