[Samba] printer list from cups without restart?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Nov 27 13:33:00 GMT 2002


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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

> So, as a Samba admin, do I have to remember to send SIGHUP manually to
> all smbd processes, after every single deletion or addition a (CUPS)
> printer, to make sure my users have an uptodate view? Is this by design?
> Or is it a shortcoming? Or a bug?

More of a shortcoming IMO.  However, it has just been brought to light
as more people use CUPS.  Traditional /etc/printcap files tended to be 
much more static. 

We'll need to work on this, but I'm pretty buried in work right now.





cheers, jerry
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