Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
Final solution: As root, 1) edit /etc/cups/cupds.conf 2) search for line Browsing On and change to Browsing Off 3) $ service cups stop 4) $ rm /var/cache/cups/remote.cache 5) $ service cups start Browsing Off will prevent the printer server to update the printer list with those pesky ghost printers. -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=357616topic_id=69455forum=10#forumpost357616 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmas...@fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame j...@borreguero.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:43 +0200, jmborr wrote: Final solution: As root, 1) edit /etc/cups/cupds.conf 2) search for line Browsing On and change to Browsing Off 3) $ service cups stop 4) $ rm /var/cache/cups/remote.cache 5) $ service cups start Browsing Off will prevent the printer server to update the printer list with those pesky ghost printers. The real solution is to configure printers only on the server. The if the server is down there will be no printers available. -- Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, but it is always created again, with all the unusable printers in there. ..then those printers aren't coming from where you think they are coming from. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
2009/4/1 Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, but it is always created again, with all the unusable printers in there. ..then those printers aren't coming from where you think they are coming from. Tim. */ What I realized is that if the printer is connected to a computer via USB, it goes away. However, if it is a network printer, with its own IP, then it sticks. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
Hi, how can I delete a printer if its cups server is down? This is specially annoying with laptops, which may have several printers visible in system-config-printer, but none of them will be ever used again. I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, but it is always created again, with all the unusable printers in there. This is a Fedora 10. Thanks. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 07:14 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: 2009/4/1 Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, but it is always created again, with all the unusable printers in there. ..then those printers aren't coming from where you think they are coming from. Tim. */ What I realized is that if the printer is connected to a computer via USB, it goes away. However, if it is a network printer, with its own IP, then it sticks. I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked up through cups browsing from the printer server. -- === Congratulations are in order for Tom Reid. He says he just found out he is the winner of the 2021 Psychic of the Year award. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.netwrote: On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 07:14 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: 2009/4/1 Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I tried deleting /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, but it is always created again, with all the unusable printers in there. ..then those printers aren't coming from where you think they are coming from. Tim. */ What I realized is that if the printer is connected to a computer via USB, it goes away. However, if it is a network printer, with its own IP, then it sticks. I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked up through cups browsing from the printer server. The solution is really to delete /var/cache/cups/remote.cache but the cups process has to be stopped, first. Otherwise, the same cache is recreated if cups is just restarted. This cache contains all of the network printers. Therefore, the solution is: 1) stop cups 2) delete cache 3) start cups Finally, I got rid of all these ghost printers... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:04 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked up through cups browsing from the printer server. You'd hope unavailable remote printers would eventually be automatically culled. You'd want some threshold, so that printers that went down for half an hour, didn't disappear. Or the office printers you've specially set options for, but aren't available at home, stay on the system, albeit in a currently unavailable status. But anything that hadn't been seen for days or weeks, and/or had no non-default options, could be erased and left to be rediscovered, later on, if they ever became available again. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to delete a printer if cups server is down?
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 02:43 +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:04 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: I suspect what you say is true since network printers would be picked up through cups browsing from the printer server. You'd hope unavailable remote printers would eventually be automatically culled. You'd want some threshold, so that printers that went down for half an hour, didn't disappear. Or the office printers you've specially set options for, but aren't available at home, stay on the system, albeit in a currently unavailable status. But anything that hadn't been seen for days or weeks, and/or had no non-default options, could be erased and left to be rediscovered, later on, if they ever became available again. In my experience if the print server is not distributing browsing packets the printers on that server disappear immediately. If the server is not there at all likewise. -- === Now there's a violent movie titled, The Croquet Homicide, or Murder With Mallets Aforethought. -- Shelby Friedman, WSJ. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
