[Samba] printer list from cups without restart?

Kurt Pfeifle kpfeifle at danka.de
Wed Nov 27 16:37:01 GMT 2002


Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> 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

OK - thanks.

Kurt





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