Folks, I'm seeing more printer strangeness. I ran s-c-p and 3 printers show which I did not explicitly add. All three have a Device URI of file:///dev/null.
If I delete them they go away momentarily and then all re-appear again. There is no way to actually print to them so why are they present?
Paolo
On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 18:47 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
Folks, I'm seeing more printer strangeness. I ran s-c-p and 3 printers show which I did not explicitly add. All three have a Device URI of file:///dev/null.
If I delete them they go away momentarily and then all re-appear again. There is no way to actually print to them so why are they present?
Sounds like there might be a CUPS system on the network which is advertising bad queues, or else the printer cache is upset.
Try:
cupsctl --no-remote-printers service cups stop rm -f /var/cache/cups/printers.cache service cups start
Wait for a minute or two. Do the queues show now?
How about after 'cupsctl --remote-printers'?
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