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... ) -- Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/