CUPS admin for users

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Mon, October 3, 2005 12:09 pm, Mark Knecht said:
> 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

So, why haven't you done a ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/init.d and be done
with it?

Just my obnoxious two bits.

Karl

>
> Go figure... ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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