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] ~ $ 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
