[6504] in Release_7.7_team
Re: ceres/bias switching to CUPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Tue Nov 10 19:19:04 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu
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That was a side-effect of going to CUPS 1.4.2 and introducing a small bug
in the parsing of the remote.cache files. I put in a fix and the caches
should get scrubbed over the next 20-30 minutes.
-MM
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hmm...I deployed a change to our testing machines today that uses
> /etc/cups/client.conf to go directly to printers.mit.edu instead of
> BrowsePolling.
>
> I ended up with this: http://web.mit.edu/sipbtest/Public/printing.png
>
> Any ideas?
>
> If you want to attempt to reproduce, you can turn on the -proposed
> repository (http://debathena.mit.edu/experimental#proposed) and
> install the debathena-cluster-printing-config package.
>
> - Evan
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Mark W. Manley <mmanley@mit.edu> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Sorry, I took yesterday off. To address your concerns:
>>
>> Geoffrey: It's on my radar to extend the LPQ output. I don't want to try
>> in CUPS 1.3.x, which is currently the operating environment for the
>> printers.mit.edu system. I'm working on porting 1.4.1 into a usable state,
>> so I'll see what I can do.
>>
>> Evan: A post-processing script that I wrote to keep offline printers
>> offline is stomping on the LPRM/LPC access rights for the queue. It's a
>> simple fix and I'll work on it this morning. The DCM is doing the Right
>> Thing [tm] by putting all the principals into the policy file, but the
>> script is messing up the printers.conf file OpPolicy directive.
>>
>> I just put myself on the release-team list to keep up with any updates from
>> here on since I'm working on creating DebAthena based dialups and this CUPS
>> system. As you may have gathered, CUPS is far from perfect in its vanilla
>> state, but it's the print system of choice in Debian, Mac OS X, and so on,
>> so I think still it's the best to work with, especially since it does
>> Kerberos and I have the source.
>>
>> -MM
>>
>
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