William, Thanks for responding. The printer is a Canon BJC4300.
I tried using printerdrake, but couldnt get it to run. As root, I started printerdrake, but it wanted to install packages and kept asking for the first Mankdrake setup disk. I put the disk in the drive, and it just kept ejecting it and asking for the disk (and I was using the right disk!). The bizarre thing was that it appeared to want to install kdebase, which is very much already installed! That bit I dont understand at all. So thats why I tried editing the cups.conf file manually. But I traced the problem of the overwritten config file to a line in the cups daemon script that looks for the executable bit set on a perl script /usr/sbin/setcupsconfig. You can unset that bit manually as I ended up doing, or through printerdrake, but seeing how I cant get printerdrake working, the second option is no option. I have read that link on the mandrake user site, and while full of usefull info, it was little help re things not working. Hamster > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:29:03 +0100 > "H.McM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote these words: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to setup printing on my MDK8.1 machine using cups, and am having a >disastrous time. > > > > The first problem is the cupsd.conf file. > > 1. I do a "service cups stop" to stop the deamon. > > 2. I edit cupsd.conf (to turn browsing off amongst other things). > > 3. I restart the daemon "service cups restart" > > > > Once the daemon is restarted, all my changes are lost, and the cupsd.conf file >reverts to the default one you get on installation! > > > > What is causing this, and how do I stop it short of doing a chattr +i?? > > > > I get the same problem if I use any of the gui setup tools. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Hamster > > What kind of printer? > > Have you tried setting up with > printerdrake ? > > Good info if you have not read it already at; > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html > > William Bouterse > Talkeetna, Ak > > > >
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