[svlug] Remote printing on Xubuntu for nitwits

[Skip Evans]

Hey Rick & all,

I will use Daniel's method from now on.

I fired up another of the workstations that I had 
not attempted to install the printer and it had 
the printer on my machine listed under remote 
printers and printed to it fine, so it must have 
been a change I made on my machine that made it 
available to the workstations.

The last change I made was Jeff's suggestion (I 
think), changing

Listen localhost:631

to

Listen *:631

...but it seems not to have taken affect right 
away, until I did something else. Perhaps I 
neglected to restart cups on my machine properly 
or something.

Anyway, all is well and the workstations now just 
find the printer with no configuration locally at all.

Skip

Rick Moen wrote:
> 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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