CUPS admin for users

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/3/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> > On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said:
> > > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter <tpotter at techmarin.com> wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks Alexey,
> > >> >    These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really
> > >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the
> > >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> > Mark
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart
> > >
> > > What I should have done...
> > >
> > >>
> > >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending....  :-)
> > >
> > > Pretty much what I did do. ;-)
> >
> > Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend
> > getting used to the following command:
> >
> > service servicename [stop|start|restart|status]
> >
> > where in your situation, would appear as
> >
> > service cupsd restart
> >
> > though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start
> > with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working on
> > heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large config
> > files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they
> > don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might
> > not be necessary.
>
> Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart".  The first invokes a shell script
> to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second
> bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly.
>
> Just me being my normal, persnickety self!  :-D

We'd probably be surprised (and disappointed!) if you weren't! ;-)

In my case I've gotten so used to Gentoo and away from Redhat that I
just couldn't insert the rc.d for some reason.

/etc/init.d/cupsd restart

vs.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart

Go figure... ;-)

Thanks,
Mark