cupsd.conf keeps changing

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:09:41PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>My cupsd.conf file keeps changing, adding printers I had deleted and
> >>removing access to networks other than 127.0.0.0. I'll edit the file and
> >>restore it to the state I want it. But after the next reboot or
> >>seemingly after a few days, the file has changed again. What is changing
> >>cupsd.conf? What file or files controls what gets put in cupsd.conf?
> >
> >
> > Remove system-config-printer if you need to hand-edit CUPS files.
>
> In addition to getting rid of system-config-printer.  Updating cups
> package will sometimes overwrite your existing cupsd.conf (old copy
> saved to cupsd.conf.rpmsave).  Do you have yum enabled to automatically
> download and install updates (what is the output of "chkconfig --list yum")?

If there are USB printers involved, there is apparently a bug where the
USB subsystem creates duplicates of printers created with other tools.
It's in Bugzilla somewhere, probably under CUPS.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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