Jon Peatfield wrote:

> On the occasions we have seen that it has usually turned out to be a random
>  rpc service which has already picked port 631 so restarting that will 
> usually free up the port...
> 
> Running
> 
> netstat -anp| grep 631

before bellow changes to 'cupsd.conf';
# netstat -anp| grep 631
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631               0.0.0.0:* \
                  LISTEN      4753/cupsd
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:* \
                              4753/cupsd
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     13631   \
 5006/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-AtyNmQfB02

after changes and '/etc/init.d/cups restart';
# netstat -anp| grep 631
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:* \
                  LISTEN      6840/cupsd

tcp        0      0 :::631                      :::*      \
                  LISTEN      6840/cupsd

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:* \
                              6840/cupsd

unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     13631  \
5006/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-AtyNmQfB02

after reboot;
# netstat -anp| grep 631
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:* \
                  LISTEN      4746/cupsd

tcp        0      0 :::631                      :::*      \
                  LISTEN      4746/cupsd

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:* \
                              4746/cupsd

>> X [17/Sep/2009:12:42:43 +0000] No Listen or Port lines were found to \ 
>> allow access via localhost!
> 
> The default cupsd.conf versions I've seen would have listed lines so I'm 
> not sure what you have in the config...

understand. what should i look for so that i can post lines? or are they
still needed now that there are no errors in '/var/log/cups/error_log'?

> If you arn't doing ipp over ssl/tls then just comment out the 
> ServerCertificate and ServerKey lines

done

> and SSLListen/SSLPort directives in the cupsd.conf file.

neither of above are in 'cupsd.conf'.

i did change 'Listen localhost:631' to 'Port 631'.


after reboot, 'http:localhost:631' still times out.

-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

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