Dear Experts,
CentOS 7 outsmarted me (again...).
Could someone tell me where cups print queues' default settings are stored?
In the past I was doing rather trivial thing: I was setting up prototype machine (making kickstart file based on it), then I was configuring all printers on prototype machine. After which (with cups daemon stopped) I was just packing /etc/cups (and maybe /usr/share/cups/model if extra ppd's were added). Then as a post-install I was just moving /etc/cups off the way, and unpacking /etc/cups, and all my printer configuration was there on newly built machine. Not anymore! After done what is described above I indeed have all printers, but queue defaults a weird: "double sided short edge" instead of "double sided long edge" as was configured on the prototype machine. What is more setting off is: recursive grep of /etc does not reveal files containing these settings (OK, OK, I know, I'm stupid, I don't know what pattern to grep for, but they are definitely not in /etc/cups AFAIK, or at leas not as ASCII...).
Any insight into the system with - *cough* *cough* - binary configuration files?
Incidentally, how do _you_ replicate CUPS configuration on CentOS 7 ?
Thanks a lot for your help !
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dear All,
Please, ignore me. All settings are indeed in /etc/cups.
Solution in my case was: calm down, go across the hallway and get yourself coffee, drink it and do something else for 5 min (maybe write "person in distress" e-mail...). And all will be what is expected after that.
Still: is there more elegant way to replicate CUPS configuration, than just copy /etc/cups ?
Thnaks. Valeri
On Fri, October 9, 2015 10:39 am, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Dear Experts,
CentOS 7 outsmarted me (again...).
Could someone tell me where cups print queues' default settings are stored?
In the past I was doing rather trivial thing: I was setting up prototype machine (making kickstart file based on it), then I was configuring all printers on prototype machine. After which (with cups daemon stopped) I was just packing /etc/cups (and maybe /usr/share/cups/model if extra ppd's were added). Then as a post-install I was just moving /etc/cups off the way, and unpacking /etc/cups, and all my printer configuration was there on newly built machine. Not anymore! After done what is described above I indeed have all printers, but queue defaults a weird: "double sided short edge" instead of "double sided long edge" as was configured on the prototype machine. What is more setting off is: recursive grep of /etc does not reveal files containing these settings (OK, OK, I know, I'm stupid, I don't know what pattern to grep for, but they are definitely not in /etc/cups AFAIK, or at leas not as ASCII...).
Any insight into the system with - *cough* *cough* - binary configuration files?
Incidentally, how do _you_ replicate CUPS configuration on CentOS 7 ?
Thanks a lot for your help !
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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