Cups problem
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Mon Dec 17 02:19:00 UTC 2007
Craig White wrote:
>> OK, he has a lot of files in yum.repos.d .
>> I believe you.
>>
>> However, it doesn't matter if he has a million files there.
>> All that matters is how many are enabled (with "enabled=1").
>> As far as I can see, you never mentioned this rather important point.
> ----
> #1, he has trouble editing these files.
I find that difficult to believe.
The OP seems to have written enough emails to fill a small library,
so surely he has a good grasp of an editor.
> #2, at least 47 out of the 54 files didn't belong there
I agree with you.
I would have deleted the lot,
and got 2 kosher files, fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo.
> #3, how would you know which fedora.repo/fedora.repo.rpmsaved would
> ultimately point to the right repo and which didn't without examining
> the contents of each of them...I thought I had a good strategy. Thanks
> once again for the unknowledgeable suggestion from the cheap seats.
Unknowledgeable?
We cheap-seaters don't understand such long words.
> Therefore, your supposition that he can't see localhost:631 is entirely
> wrong. He can connect.
Really?
I must have missed that.
You mean, he got the CUPS web-page on his machine?
In that case he was 1mm from getting CUPS running.
But I'll leave the field to you -
you are evidently cut out as a teacher ...
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