[6509] in Release_7.7_team
Re: ceres/bias switching to CUPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Mon Nov 16 09:02:20 2009
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:02:09 -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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I'd still like to keep the plan of:
printers.mit.edu - all printers, regardless
cluster-printers.mit.edu - DORM and CLUSTER only
so that we don't end up with a huge mess on our hands (it's not called
"I-want-the-smaller-list-of-printers-lolz.mit.edu"). The only change that
I would make, if needed, to printers is to allow people to drop their
printers from listing all together. That way, people won't accidentally
select printers whose owners would rather not have them selected.
The question comes of why people wanted to have their printers selectable
on cups. I suspect they just wanted to be able to use CUPS from their
machine, not to be treated specially, but that could be an incorrect
assumption.
I'm also unclear about where the "add-athena-printer" script runs. It is
that something that runs on the desktop that simply creates a pointer to
the printers.mit.edu queue?
-MM
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> I've got a changeset in -proposed now to point all cluster machines
> directly at printers.mit.edu. I think that should be ready to deploy
> to the clusters on Monday.
>
> Since there are queues currently being served by cups.mit.edu that
> aren't DORM or CLUSTER (we added a few on request), I'd like to have
> an easy means for users to add those. We've discussed having an
> "add-athena-printer" script that would do something sufficiently
> clever, and it shouldn't be hard to write.
>
> Once we have that available, I'm definitely ready to re-point
> everybody else at cluster-printers.mit.edu and/or let you guys steal
> the cups.mit.edu name. Hopefully we can do this within the next week
> or two.
>
> - Evan
