On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:02:31 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 2/9/06, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > In the past I've been able to give root/password info when > > > configuring printers from within http://localhost:631 but now it no > > > longer works. This is true on both of our Gentoo machines. > > > > > > Has something changed about this in a recent update? I'm assuming > > > some recent update has botched things up. > > > > > > How do I get it enabled again so taht it asked for the admin passowrd? > > > > You do have cupsd running when this happens eh? > > > > /etc/init.d/cupsd status to find out > > /etc/init.d/cupsd start to start it. > > Yes, CUPS is running: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /etc/init.d/cupsd status > * status: started > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
status does not always tell the truth. If cupsd had died an unnatural death, status would give the wrong answer. Try a /etc/init.d/cupsd restart and see what happens. $ > > It used to be that if I was in Firefox and tried to do something that > required administrator privileges then CUPS/Frefox popped up a dialog > box, I typed in root and root's password, and I was able to make the > change I needed. > > It is no longer working on both of our machines and I cannot configure CUPS. > > Also, and I find this VERY strange, but the printers we had configured > are still there and I can still print to them, but they are no longer > in printers.conf. How can I have printers working if they are not in > printers.conf? Has Gnome taken all this stuff over and hidden it from > me? > > dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23 > # Written by cupsd on Fri Feb 3 21:26:10 2006 > dragonfly ~ # > > Since there's a date of Feb. 3rd in this file I had been assuming > something happened at that time, but I don't know that's when this > problem specifically happened. I looked at /var/log/emerge and nothing > was emerged on that day. I had emerges on Jan. 30th, and then again on > Feb. 5th. > > I don't get it. > > Thanks for answering. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
