[6499] in Release_7.7_team
printers.mit.edu CUPS upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Fri Nov 6 12:39:51 2009
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:39:40 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
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In one of the less than smooth transitions this morning, I upgraded the
CUPS software from 1.3.11 to 1.4.1 on the printers.mit.edu servers. To
whit, what changed in addition to this was:
1. Kerberos authorizations should be fixed. Horray! You can have queue
management again!
2. I have extended the lpq output thusly:
green-arrow /mit/mmanley $ lpq -Pceres
ceres is ready and printing
warutsuk: active [job 2363 (Nov 05 10:37)
localhost]
warutsuk_156931 88898560 bytes
Note the that there are now dates and times beside the job id. What's
ironic, however, is that this output only shows up when you use the old
LPRng LPQ command. The CUPS LPQ client is "too smart for me!" in that it
actively strips out the extra data and replaces it with a standard CUPS
format. Meh.
3. Ghostscript and general foomatic updates for drivers. We're running
GS 8.70 for those that really like to know version numbers, which is the
latest that I could find.
The turbulence in Nagios should have ebbed by now, but I'll keep an eye on
it. The reason for upgrading CUPS was to close a security hole present in
the 1.3.x tree, which is also deprecated and was another reason for
upgrading.
Please let me know if there are any questions. I keep tabs on the queues
served by the printers.mit.edu CUPS instance.
-MM
