Jon Peatfield wrote: > On the occasions we have seen that it has usually turned out to be a random > rpc service which has already picked port 631 so restarting that will > usually free up the port... > > Running > > netstat -anp| grep 631
before bellow changes to 'cupsd.conf'; # netstat -anp| grep 631 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* \ LISTEN 4753/cupsd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* \ 4753/cupsd unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 13631 \ 5006/hald @/var/run/hald/dbus-AtyNmQfB02 after changes and '/etc/init.d/cups restart'; # netstat -anp| grep 631 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* \ LISTEN 6840/cupsd tcp 0 0 :::631 :::* \ LISTEN 6840/cupsd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* \ 6840/cupsd unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 13631 \ 5006/hald @/var/run/hald/dbus-AtyNmQfB02 after reboot; # netstat -anp| grep 631 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* \ LISTEN 4746/cupsd tcp 0 0 :::631 :::* \ LISTEN 4746/cupsd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* \ 4746/cupsd >> X [17/Sep/2009:12:42:43 +0000] No Listen or Port lines were found to \ >> allow access via localhost! > > The default cupsd.conf versions I've seen would have listed lines so I'm > not sure what you have in the config... understand. what should i look for so that i can post lines? or are they still needed now that there are no errors in '/var/log/cups/error_log'? > If you arn't doing ipp over ssl/tls then just comment out the > ServerCertificate and ServerKey lines done > and SSLListen/SSLPort directives in the cupsd.conf file. neither of above are in 'cupsd.conf'. i did change 'Listen localhost:631' to 'Port 631'. after reboot, 'http:localhost:631' still times out. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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