[svlug] Remote printing on Xubuntu for nitwits
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Feb 2 16:48:37 PST 2007
Quoting Skip Evans (skip at bigskypenguin.com):
> This morning I also tried restarting cups, not in
> the way I had been with
>
> kill -HUP (cups pid)
>
> ...but the way Daniel had suggested:
>
> invoke-rc.d cupsys restart
>
> Which of those was the actual fix, I don't know.
In general, merely HUPping a daemon is deprecated because you (usually)
cannot be sure that the results are quite what you intend. Similarly,
sending SIGTERM or SIGKILL to shut down a service, ditto. You should,
on a conventional Linux system, use the SysVInit mechanisms, instead.
(Less-conventional *ix systems now exist that use something radically
different from the traditional SysVInit or BSD inits, e.g., initNG,
boot-scripts, runit, syscan, launchd, SMF, upstart, eINIT.)
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