How to delete a printer if cups server is down?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 1 13:04:59 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 07:14 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/4/1 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
>         Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>                 I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache,
>                 but it is always created again, with all the unusable
>                 printers in there.
>         
>         
>         ..then those printers aren't coming from where you think they
>         are coming from.
>         
>         Tim.
>         */
>         
> 
> What I realized is that if the printer is connected to a computer via
> USB,
> it goes away. However, if it is a network printer, with its own IP,
> then it sticks. 
> 
I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked up
through cups browsing from the printer server.
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