<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Aaron Konstam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 07:14 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:<br>
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> 2009/4/1 Tim Waugh <<a href="mailto:twaugh@redhat.com">twaugh@redhat.com</a>><br>
> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:<br>
> I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache,<br>
> but it is always created again, with all the unusable<br>
> printers in there.<br>
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> ..then those printers aren't coming from where you think they<br>
> are coming from.<br>
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> Tim.<br>
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> What I realized is that if the printer is connected to a computer via<br>
> USB,<br>
> it goes away. However, if it is a network printer, with its own IP,<br>
> then it sticks.<br>
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</div></div>I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked up<br>
through cups browsing from the printer server.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>The solution is really to delete /var/cache/cups/remote.cache<br>but the cups process has to be stopped, first. Otherwise,<br>the same cache is recreated if cups is just restarted.<br>
This cache contains all of the network printers. <br><br>Therefore, the solution is:<br>1) stop cups<br>2) delete cache<br>3) start cups<br><br>Finally, I got rid of all these ghost printers...<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>
LCG - UFRJ<br>