CUPS admin for users

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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... ;-)

Depends on how they set things up and whether they subscribe to the
standardized directory structure group.  "That's what's nice about open
standards...you get to pick an choose!"

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