It has continued to work and the system has been rebboted at least 3 times. I still have no idea why oit stopped, but all seems well now.
Regards Peter Goggin On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:38 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > On 17/08/10 22:54, peter goggin wrote: > > Thanks for that. It certainly restored my printer. > > > Good to hear! Please keep replies on the mailing list. > > Do I need to do this every time I reboot my system? > > > > I've never found that to be necessary, but perhaps something has changed > to prevent startup of CUPS on your system. > > In all my time working with Debian & Ubuntu (i switched from Red Hat to > Debian about 5 years ago), i've never had to fix startup on an > application that was provided with the system, so i don't even know how > to ensure that it's enabled for startup. Time for a bit of Google... > > OK, it seems that if you have the package sysv-rc-conf, you can use > sysv-rc-conf to enable and disable services on startup. Try > "sysv-rc-conf --list cups" to see whether or not it is enabled. > > Paul -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
