cupsd.conf keeps changing

Andrew Robinson awrobinson at cox.net
Sat Jan 8 05:26:02 UTC 2005


William Hooper wrote:
> Andrew Robinson said:
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> IIRC you must remove system-config-printer if you want to edit the cups
> files by hand.
> 

I don't really mind system-config-printer overwriting my cupsd.conf file 
so long as the end result is what I want. I would like to keep as 
"standard" a FC3 system as I can. How do I configure 
system-config-printer to give me the desired configuration?

Andrew




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