From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F7K9c-0003vS-Iq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:20:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k19MIY9A016947; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:18:34 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k19MCidv014484 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:12:44 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A2A1CCF10 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:10:47 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:12:43 +1300 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0602090502k444a3d7fwfafedc0cc636897f@mail.gmail.com> References: <87pslwu5h2.fsf@newsguy.com> <5bdc1c8b0602090502k444a3d7fwfafedc0cc636897f@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20060210111145.D669.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: b4a84bb5-b77c-456f-870b-56e27e3ec7ee X-Archives-Hash: e7cdf4864e1e2569ba1b5244fa9f52f6 On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:02:31 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 2/9/06, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Mark Knecht 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: > > mark@dragonfly ~ $ /etc/init.d/cupsd status > * status: started > mark@dragonfly ~ status does not always tell the truth. If cupsd had died an unnatural death, status would give the wrong answer. Try a /etc/init.d/cupsd restart and see what happens. $ > > 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 -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list