On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:40:07AM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > cupsd seems to be going wild (see below). > > I have been reading the conf files and documentations and am a little confused. > > I am connected to a epson c80 printer on the intranet. I do not want to manage > the printer from the linux machine, just want to be able to use it to print > jobs. IIRC, RH 8 did not exhibit the same activity. > > Question 1: It appears that changing the KeepAlive or KeepAliveTimeOut would > change this action. If so, is that the best approach to take? > > Question 2: Is cups the optimal approach to take to print on a remote printer. > > Any advice from someone with more expertise than I would be appreciated. > > Mike. > My personal preference is let the rmote printer be managed as it wants to. Currrently LPRng has a much simpiler interface to print to a remote printer. But as caviat I have this many times with LPRng and tried it only once in cups interface. On the other hand if you do it with redhat-config-pronter it should not make a difference. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
