cups configuration is changed by someone

[Herbert Gasiorowski]

Someone is changing the cups-configuration file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
and then restarts cupsd.
Afterwards the server will not handle any print job.

This happens last week and this night
and there was no rpm-update (since Feb.24)!

Sometimes there are additional restarts without config-changes.

all look like the last one (/var/log/cups/error_log):
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:28 +0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] Full reload is required.
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 15 PPDs...
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:29 +0100] LoadPPDs: Wrote "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 15 PPDs...
I [09/Feb/2005:06:14:33 +0100] Full reload complete.

The main Problem seem to be, that cups is only listening to localhost.

Anyone knows what is going on?

-- 
mfg
Herbert Gasiorowski
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gasi/

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:

>  Anyone knows what is going on? 
Sounds like you had changed /etc/cups/cupsd.conf by hand, even though
you have system-config-printer installed.  Remove
system-config-printer if you want to do that.

Tim.
*/

[Andrew Robinson]

Tim Waugh wrote:
>  On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
>  
> >Anyone knows what is going on?
>  
>  Sounds like you had changed /etc/cups/cupsd.conf by hand, even though
>  you have system-config-printer installed.  Remove
>  system-config-printer if you want to do that.
>   
Or go back and reconfigure your printers using system-config-printer. 
Once I did this, system-config-printer stopped changing my printer 
configurations. The configuration process winds up being remarkably like 
CUPS.

I think system-configuration-printer is an attempt by Red Hat to 
abstract printer configuration. It seems pretty heavy-handed if you are 
used to CUPS. I still get an extra entry per printer which I think has 
something to do with kudzu. I decided to ignore those.

Andrew Robinson