[7426] in Release_7.7_team
Re: cluster-cups-config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Mar 22 14:21:02 2011
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From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:51:17 -0700
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
CC: "release-team@mit.edu Team" <release-team@mit.edu>
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Sorry, by "regen printers.conf" I mean "loop over lpadmin", yeah
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Geoffrey Thomas (from mobile)
geofft@mit.edu
"Jonathan Reed" <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> Probably the right long-term answer is to query something on the
>order of Hesiod for a list of cluster printers and regen printers.conf
>out of that
>
>Also, that's almost certainly not the right answer, since our
>experience with c-c-c has shown us that CUPS does not like people
>playing stupid games with printers.conf. Additionally, all driver info
>is lost, and since CUPS is, by itself, incapable of generating usable
>PostScript, we need to be able to specify driver information. Using
>lpadmin from the command line is the right answer for whatever we do.
>
>-Jon
