Tim Waugh wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 06:19:14PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
I can see the results in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but cannot figure out where thae data is stored for later. I looks like it migh be something in /etc/alchemist but I cannot figure out what it's doing. There appear to be no docs for alchemist either.
The data is stored by alchemist. It is of course human readable, as XML: zless /etc/alchemist/namespace/printer/local.adl. (Unfortunately there is no DTD, but it is quite self-explanatory.)
Dooh!! It's compressed XML. Why didn't I think of that.
In order to allow for remote administration using the CUPS web interface, the XML must be extended in a clearly defined way, and the config tool needs to allow the user to modify it. There is already a bug in bugzilla for 'allow remote administration': feel free to put suggestions for the UI there.
I wasn't thinking so much about about remote admin yet, just a workaround
for Davids issue. If the file that princonf uses can be edited, then changing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf isn't needed, and running redhat-config-printer doesn't destroy ones settings, and neither does the iniscript.
Got the bug# for remote admin handy?
-Thomas
