On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Ken Teh wrote:

> You can prevent the printtool from overwriting your hand edits by
> editing /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups.  There is a line in the start() function --
> 'config' which calls the shell function config() (also in the same script)
> that calls the printconf tool.  Simply comment this line out and your
> hand-edits will stay in place.

Or even simpler remove the system-config-printer rpm!  One can then be 
really sure it won't ever overwrite any files.

Edit cupsd.conf once (unless you really need different acls for each 
printer just specify the allow/deny for the /printers/ location), and use 
either lpadmin or the cups-web interface to add/remove printers etc.

Don't trust me though --  we still use LPRng/UNIXlpr (for another 71 
minutes... and counting... )

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Jon Peatfield,  Computer Officer,  DAMTP,  University of Cambridge
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