[CentOS] Something keep modifying cups config

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at pathfinder.phys.utk.edu
Fri Mar 24 14:23:32 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:11, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > So I couldn't figure out what keeps changing the files. Am I not supposed
> > to edit the file directly, or am I missing something else here ?
>
> You have system-config-printer package installed.  Which believes it has
> complete control over Cups configuration.  Each time cups package is
> updated, it will use system-config-printer to regenerate configuration
> file, overwriting your changes.  Some other processes may trigger it 
> too.  If you are manually setting Cups configuration, simply deinstall
> system-config-printer and all should be fine.  If you are using GUI,
> don't touch the files with vi editor.

Well, except there doesn't seem to be anyway to do this from 
system-config-printer.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN



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