Looks like the cups mailing list has died & I have a problem.

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Dec 7 03:08:34 UTC 2012


On Thursday 06 December 2012 22:05:51 Marc Deslauriers did opine:

> On 12-12-06 08:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > An hour after I posted that, I did find the problem.  In
> > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, network browsing was disabled, again.  I have
> > specifically enabled that several time, the most recent was I believe
> > in June or July of this summer.  I turned it back on, did the search
> > for printers again, then remembered I had not restarted cups, and did
> > so.  Both machines then found the shared printers and I was able to
> > print a .hal config file from both machines.
> > 
> > Then I went back and did the chattr +i on both of those
> > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf files.  If the next cups update has a litter of
> > elephants over that, so be it.
> 
> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is a conf file, dpkg doesn't touch conf files when
> upgrading packages.
> 
> Marc.

Neither did I, but that option keeps getting itself turned off.  I guess, 
if whatever is doing it, thinks its important enough to send the logs a 
message when it can't, then we will find out what is shutting that off.

Thanks Marc.

Cheers, Gene
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