CUPS admin for users

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Mon, October 3, 2005 11:40 am, Rick Stevens said:
> 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.

Okay, I give... I knew that, too. It's just easier to type service ...
than /etc/rc.d/init.d/sname (even with the nice TAB feature of completing
things bash has).

On AIX it's stopsrc -s sname
then startsrc -s sname... very annoying, IMHO.

>
> Just me being my normal, persnickety self!  :-D

Don't stop. I think I speak for at least myself when I say, it's part of
your charm...

>
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