[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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